Over the past three years, landlords were able to ascertain exactly how many earned their tenants, but that should not anymore.
The Council of State has someone who did not want his landlord had access to his income data vindicated .
The cheap social housing are intended for people with incomes up to 35,000 euros, says the government. In 2012, The Hague decided therefore to address tenants with incomes too high.
higher rent
Corporations these so-called skew inhabitants may impose an additional rent increase .This year, for the middle (around 35000-45000 euros) to 2.6 percent rent increase for higher income is 4.6 percent.
One of those crooked inhabitants Dick Westerbeek (61), who has lived since his birth in a family house in Nijmegen William quarter. He and his partner earn more than 45,000 euros and get an annual rent increase of about 5 percent. "The rent is going up sharply since 2013 suddenly, but the house has not changed or modified. This is madness," he says.
Thanks to measure the skew tenants would be motivated to progress to a home on the market for sale. Moreover, says corporation dome Aedes today , the extra rent medals were badly needed to compensate the landlord charge. This is an annual tax of hundreds of euros per rented dwelling, to be paid by corporations of the Cabinet.
To find out how many earn their tenants, the corporations were allowed to retrieve today the income data from the Tax. They did so in large numbers: according Aedes were requested in 2014 by the inhabitants of the 2.68 million social housing 1.9 million income statements.
From which tax data showed that hundreds of thousands of people earned too much and so got a rent increase on their pants. In 2013 it was 355,000 households a year later that even 417,000. The past year was about 328,000 tenants.
"House bullying"
Dutchman Dick Westerbeek sees with sorrow. "People with higher incomes are more likely to leave the district are. So stay While this is a deprived area only people with lower incomes behind.."
He himself worrying not about to move, even though his rent now risen to 475 euros per month. "I'm a huge scheefwoner, but I do not let me out of my house bullying."
new law
Incidentally minister Block of Housing has submitted a new Rent Act, leaving households with an income from 39.000 euro can expect an annual rent increase of 4 percent plus inflation. He says that retrieving the income data by the landlords with the new law will still be well regulated .
Block hopes that the Representatives and the Senate soon adopt its proposal "Flow rental market" so that the annual rent increase can just continue on July 1st.
Source: NOS.nl/ © THE_RIEL_THING / FLICKR / CREATIVE COMMONS 2.0 BY-NC-ND
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