Brussels Parliament wants to get rid of excessive rents… (Brussels)
The ordinance must provide an answer to the shortage of affordable housing that Brussels has been able to do for several years. The Brussels coalition agreement has made the fight against excessive rents a priority. For many Brussels residents, rents are difficult to pay because they take too much of their income. On average, they spend 42% of their income on their rental property. In addition, the ordinance also has the ambition to increase the quality of the homes.
The ordinance one prohibits owners from charging an excessive rent. This is the case if the rent exceeds the reference rent – provided in the reference rent grid and representative of the rental market – by 20 percent. There is also a suspicion of excessive rent if the house has substantial defects beyond the rental price.
relieve justice of the peace
In that case, the tenant can raise this with the tenants and landlords. He can give advice on the appropriate amount of the requested rent of financial between tenant and landlord. The commission can also be seized by the landlord, or by the justice of the peace in the context of a procedure initiated by the tenant.
Co-applicant Arnaud Verstraeten (Groen) pointed out that the ordinance will relieve the justice of the peace and ensure that the tenant has to wait less long for a correct rent. Carla Dejonghe (Open VLD) is that both tenants need confidence and that the par rent can work. For Fouad Ahidar (one.brussels-Vooruit), this ordinance is not the miracle solution, but one of the elements in the fight against the housing crisis.
No consultation with sector
Alexis Bertrand announced that the MR faction will arise when there has been no consultation. “This is a political instrument that will not work in reality, partly because the owners have announced that they do not want to sit on the joint rent committee,” she summed up.
For Mathias Vanden Borre (N-VA) there is talk of a “protocommunist measure that curtails the right to property”. The high rents and the poor quality of the house prices are not being addressed. On the contrary: they will encourage the owners not to offer their property on the rental market. “The core of the problem is poverty in the Brussels Region,” said Vanden Borre.
“The proposed regulation is legally very shaky, both in terms of exceeding powers and in terms of disproportionate curtailment of the right to property. The proposal on unplayable elements and leaves a laundry list of questions. The approval of this right and legal proceedings,” said Vanden Borre, for whom it is “to support this proposal”.
He did not understand that the MR would not vote against the proposal like the N-VA.
Insufficient for PVDA
The measure is insufficient for the PVDA. The rent will not fall for Françoise De Smedt either. She also did not believe that there is an excessive rent.
Bianca Debaets (CD&V) Debaets (CD&V) The foundation is a creditable attempt to protect the vulnerable tenant, which is ultimately financing and will create legal uncertainty. To solve the crisis they turn to social housing, the housing inspectors,… That is why she will appear to be in the mood, just like the cdH.
Pepijn Kennis (gora) has told a parliament that he can only announce the ordinance if it has adapted a number of amendments to the resolution that the citizens’ assembly has approved on the subject.