Thursday, April 14, 2016

More and more tenants are difficult round – NU.nl

Half a million renters (18 percent) can meet with difficulty the obligations. Since 2012 it has increased by 5 percent. This is evident from Thursday to figures published by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL)

The CPB investigated how many households have a ‘payment risks:. The risk that a household monthly housing costs at a given moment no longer pay because their income is insufficient.

The problems are less with owners of owner-occupied. Last year, 3 percent struggling to meet monthly living expenses. They are according to the PBL above the absolute minimums that are in a fix.

In 2015, threatened to almost half of all housing benefit claimants with incomes below the social minimum in the payment problems.



Housing benefit

the figures show that people who receive housing benefit, have less difficulty. Nevertheless, this percentage (11 percent) have doubled compared to 2012

The reason, according to the planning office in part by policy changes:. Tenants pay a larger share of the rent itself and corporations have the ability to rent to rise more than inflation.

” Because of the hard rose rent are increasingly tenants in a fix ”, responds director Ronald Paping the Woonbond the numbers.

From 2013, rents could rise well above inflation. ” The number of tenants that this has thus increased hard struggling with poverty. ” The Tenants calling landlords to make a priority of the affordability of rent

By.: ANP

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