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Verve-free frames, sagging buildings, missing tiles and ripped facades: significantly overdue maintenance in the private housing is a persistent problem. Poorly maintained homes have a negative impression on the neighborhood. The quality of life, the sense of security of residents and the value of surrounding properties there are briskly under pressure. Rotterdam-Zuid 10 000 owner-occupied homes are bad because owners want to or can not spend money on maintenance. These homes must be urgently refurbished or replaced, but the question is who is going to pay the necessary millions.

The housing corporations in any event: overdue maintenance remains a problem of homeowners themselves. It is impossible to explain to delinquent homeowners are rewarded with money from tenants.

Overdue maintenance is primarily a problem of the homeowners themselves. They not only have the duty to carry out timely and high-quality maintenance, from a value perspective, they are also the most interested in. In addition, banks that have funded this poorly maintained properties, are reminded of their duty of care. They have indeed benefited from their collateral retains its value. Buck to the associations and their tenants is very easy.
"Knife in the throat '

Furthermore, municipalities and the state have a duty to ensure a minimum quality of the living environment.

The city of Rotterdam, however, sees a role for the Rotterdam corporations, thereby firmly encouraged by Marco Pastors, director of the National Programme Rotterdam-Zuid (NPRZ). Pastors want corporations even 'with the knife to the throat "force them to pay it, as could be read on January 2 in this paper.

Corporations of the municipality must invest half a billion euros in the ten thousand outdated private homes in the south of Rotterdam. That is a loss-making investment, since the first homes to be purchased by the corporations, and they should be immediately demolished and replaced by new buildings of more expensive homes.

Invest in privately held with funding from tenants with low income is unjustifiable. This money, the corporations desperately need to keep their own homes qualitative production capacity, preserve and keep it affordable for their tenants. And that is exactly what the Rotterdam corporations they invest in the coming years, hundreds of millions in the corporation housing in Rotterdam South.
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With the new Housing tenants organizations are equal partners of corporations and municipalities in making performance agreements. The Rotterdam tenants' organizations are strongly opposed to the idea of ​​stabbing corporation funds in the private housing stock.

If municipalities and the rich feel that the quality of private housing is so low that it poses a threat to the environment, then it is a political choice to do something about it. This choice must also mean that politics frees itself there sufficient resources. If not, then it's time to think about other plans to help turn the private stock in Rotterdam South.

Maria Miller (chairman of the board Woonstad Rotterdam), Bert Wijbenga van Nieuwenhuizen, (Chairman of the Board Woonbron) Hedy van den Berk (driver Havensteder), Arjan Schakenbos (Chairman of the Board Vestia), Anda Ros (Chairman Customer Council Woonstad Rotterdam ), Arie van Neutigem (acting chairman Concern Participation Council Woonbron), Wim Martens (chairman Foundation Tenants Alliance Bridge, tenant representation Havensteder), Cees van der Harst (Chairman National Huurdersraad Vestia).

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