Students who are looking to rent a room during their studies have seen prices shoot up even higher, with rental rates in Amsterdam nearing 1,000 euros per month. While Amsterdam monthly rental rates are now at a pricey 48 euros per square meter, Haarlem was even more expensive at 51 euros per month at the start of the year, according to first quarter figures from rental platform Kamernet. It might be necessary to put a maximum price on room rental rates targeting students, said housing professor Peter Boelhouwer on Thursday.
The caretaker Cabinet's aim of building 981,000 homes before 2030 will not be achieved, according to Peter Boelhouwer, a housing systems professor at TU Delft. "The task is enormous," he said this during the Housing Summit in The Hague on Thursday. Boelhouwer believes that the housing shortage will increase in the coming years. Other real estate experts previously indicated that the government's plans are not feasible.
The province of Zuid-Holland will be the first province to check that new construction projects include enough affordable housing. If they don’t meet the two-thirds affordable homes target, the involved municipality will have to adjust the plans, Anne Koning (PvdA), the responsible provincial administrator, told NOS.
The nitrogen crisis wasn’t the biggest obstacle to housing construction in the Netherlands in recent years, but it did have a clear effect. Without the restrictive nitrogen rules, about 23,000 more homes would have been built since mid-2019 than were actually constructed, Trouw reports based on new research by real estate consultancy Colliers.
The large fireworks shows planned around midnight in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and The Hague will proceed as it stands. The organizers and the municipalities involved say that the signals are green despite the strong wind but that a final decision will be made later in the day. The fireworks shows in Hoek van Holland and Waddinxveen have been canceled.