D66 wants 10,000 relocation bonus for seniors in Amsterdam
In order to promote the flow in the housing market in Amsterdam, D66 wants to entice the elderly, who live in a large house in the capital, to move. If someone chooses to leave their home, that person will receive a reward of 10,000 euros. That reports The Telegraph.
The housing market is quite locked up. Amsterdam, for example, has 8,500 small households that live too large, according to an inventory by the municipality. In order to get the housing market going again, D66 wants to encourage seniors to move, so that the houses that are too large are available for families.
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The reason that relocation is often not forthcoming is because the rents in Amsterdam are very high. So for seniors quickly a reason to stay put. To counter this, D66 wants to have new senior housing built in the city, whereby the elderly continue to pay their old rent. However, the house must have four rooms.
What’s up with the party’s proposal, is that begin to be born first to actually stay at home. That was mainly caused by the massive closure of old people’s homes. D66 councilor Reinier van Dantzig does not want it to be a proposal for absolutely not to chase out of their home. “Lease law is a great asset and we absolutely do not want to change it,” he tells De Telegraaf.
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To solve the housing crisis, we must not only build and justly, but also encourage Amsterdam residents who live too large to move to suitable homes. With a generous relocation bonus and priority in your own neighbourhood. And of course fully applied to construction elderly homes #D66woonagenda pic.twitter.com/oRtPNuf3a2
— Reinier van Dantzig (@RvDantzig) December 9, 2021
‘Build, build, build’
Mariëlle Paul, Member of Parliament for the VVD, lives in Amsterdam herself and is familiar with the problem in the housing market. “There is a great housing shortage in Amsterdam and I know that my own party is very committed to building, building, building. Certainly also for starters,” she says in Good Morning Netherlands on NPO 1.
Paul would like to see the throughput pick up and, according to her, “creative solutions, such as such a relocation bonus”, can contribute. The politician thinks that not everyone immediately grabs the encompassing boxes. “People who may have already had the plan to live in a smaller house may think, well I will collect those 10,000 euros. But if you’re happy in the house where you live, you won’t move.”
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Door: Vick ten Wolde