News item | 15-09-2023 | 2:45 PM
As of today, corporations and healthcare providers can apply for subsidies for new-build homes and transformation of existing homes that are suitable for providing care. The government is doing this to encourage the construction of social housing suitable for care. The clustered homes are intended for people who need intensive care (Wlz indication) and in the current situation often go to a nursing home.
In July, the government announced that it would allocate €312 million in the coming years to encourage corporations and healthcare providers to build 20,000 affordable care-suitable homes for social rent. The objective is to build 290,000 homes for the elderly by 2030. 40,000 of these are care-suitable homes in clustered living arrangements, in which nursing care can be provided. Half of these care-suitable homes are affordable homes that fall within social rental.
The subsidy scheme is intended to contribute to the construction costs of these care-suitable homes. The reimbursement amounts to a maximum of €17,500 for a home suitable for care intended for someone with a Wlz indication. If the home suitable for care is not intended for someone with a Wlz indication, the maximum amount is €12,500.
It is expected that in the future, people with a partner will move more often to clustered housing where people with and without (heavy) care needs live together. This allows residents to help each other and people can continue to live in their own home for longer, even if they need more care.
More investments
Care-suitable homes require more investments compared to regular homes. For example, in a meeting room, more spacious rooms and wider corridors and doors, so that caregivers have sufficient space to also provide care in the bathroom and bedroom. If they are not on the ground floor, healthcare-suitable homes, for example in new construction, must also have a passenger lift that is suitable for stretchers.
Housing associations and healthcare providers can apply for the subsidy scheme for both new construction and the transformation of existing buildings. The scheme is open for a year and applications are possible until October 2024. And will be closely monitored before the scheme is opened again in 2025. The use of the scheme will be evaluated before the new opening in 2025. Click here for more information about the scheme.
Webinar
The Ministries of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) and the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK), together with the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), are offering a webinar on Monday, October 2 for healthcare organizations and corporations that want to know more about the scheme and have questions. want to state. You can register for the webinar here.
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