Housing corporations are putting up the cost of rent-controlled properties by some 13% when they are let to new tenants, according to research by tenants’ lobby group Woonbond.

In particular, rents are going up in the bigger cities, the organisation said. A rise of 13% means an increase of around €55 per month.
‘Social housing is becoming too expensive for people on low incomes,’ Woonbond director Ronald Paping is quoted as saying in the Financieele Dagblad.
The price of social housing is determined through a points-based system, with extra points for central heating and good local amenities, for example.