More tenants are difficult round – NU.nl

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

The CPB investigated how many households have a so-called payment risks:. The risk that a household at any given time monthly housing costs can not 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 has therefore increased this hard struggling with poverty. ” The Tenants calls on landlords to make a priority of the affordability of rent

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Practice

A spokesman for Minister Stef Blok says it but the question is whether tenants more difficult to get by. In practice, according to the spokesperson just see a positive development.

The PBL study is a model-based billing of assumptions of what people spend on various living expenses. But the study says nothing about how many people actually have payment problems.

This week reported trade association of housing corporations Aedes mean that the number of evictions has dropped by payment problems for the second year in a row. That is precisely through early intervention so that debts do not accumulate, said the spokesman.

In addition, the government has hundreds of millions of euros earmarked for additional housing allowance. Thus the lowest incomes be compensated for any rent increases

By:. ANP