Hugo de Jonge joined the talk show again last night On 1 to tell you whatthe real situation is with the housing shortage. Or better: how ‘he’ is goingto have 900,000 new homes built and therefore 100,000 homes per year up to andincluding 2030.
We have news: Hugo de Jonge admits that this is a difficult task, which may ormay not be completely successful. The Minister for Housing and SpatialPlanning is thus giving a lot of advice. After all, as minister ‘of Corona’ hewas nicknamed #Hugokanniks.
Hugo de Jonge pulls the cart
It is clear that we have a housing shortage in the Netherlands. New homes aresimply needed, lots of new homes. The man who must and wants to lead the way:Hugo de Jonge. Not all people – to put it mildly – have confidence in thatgiven his corona past. Just take that face mask deal. But Hugo de Jongeperseveres. For example, last month he started talking about 60,000 studentresidences in eight years. How does he himself view the future of our housingmarket?
minister @hugodejonge> is surprised that there is no planning in The Hague of how many people we> will live in the Netherlands in 2050. “That seems to be happening to us a> bit. I think we really need more control over migration.” #On> 1> pic.twitter.com/JE5ZC2rkZE>> — Op1 (@op1npo) October 20,> 2022
“We cannot afford the housing shortage that we now have, 300,000 homes, wecannot afford to drag on any longer,” the minister said in a statement. On1. With his well-known smooth speaking style: „So we will have to have a lotof houses built in the future. And so we will have to create certainties forthe future for all those big issues that come our way, whether it is theenergy transition or housing construction. Precisely if we want to counteractuncertainties and counteract polarization as a result of that uncertainty, wewill have to create certainties.”
How many houses are being built?
“Should the next coalition agreement state how many people are allowed to livein the Netherlands?”, wanted presenter Fidan Ekiz. Hugo de Jonge: “I think weshould arrive at a policy guideline for migration. I think it’s very necessaryto do that. We have set up a State Commission that will advise us ondemographic trends. Not only about growth, but also about the aging side of itand how we can prepare for it. Demography should become a much more importanttopic in The Hague, yes.”
Ekiz’ colleague Sven Kockelmann concluded with the question: „Give us a guidenumber. How many houses will have been built if you stop as a minister at theend of this period. Hugo de Jonge covered himself with a hand gesture of’don’t hold me to it’: “We are doing everything we can to achieve at leastthose 900,000 by 2030. With the uncertainties of today, that will be verycomplicated. Then it may well be that it will take longer to actually exceed100,000 homes per year. At the same time, we also have to tell ourselves thatwe don’t have the luxury of saying ‘we’ll just get off if there’s a headwind’.Then we have to pedal harder.”
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