'S tenant paid too much'

In 2013 355.000 households received a rent increase, a year later there 417,000. The past year was about 328,000 tenants.

"There are three years of unjustified income data provided," says director Ronald Paping the Woonbond. "And on that basis, there are also made ​​unjustified rent increases."

reflection Year

There is a bill to make the level of rental income dependent, but the Woonbond against. "We found out that the owner has to deal with income policy," says Paping.

He thinks now that the decision of the State Council there is, that a year of reflection should be to take a good think about the future of the rental market.

Corporations have done nothing wrong. It was the law that was wrong.

According Aedes, the umbrella organization of housing corporations, the corporations have done nothing wrong over the years. "Corporations have just the last few years carried out the law," said a spokesman. "Now it turns out that the law, which prescribes the rules for the income-related rent increase is false. Corporations have nothing to go wrong."

Aedes refers to the minister. "The fault lay with the law, which was not explicit enough. Minister Bloc will now change the law. We will just turn to follow and implement the new law."

"What this statement of RvS further means for tenants and corporations, we do not know now. But since Cube will come with a new bill, we assume that the income-related rent increase from 1 July can just continue."

A spokesman for the Amsterdam housing Stadgenoot late in a reaction that any recovery does not remain without consequences. "The government has ensured that we got to know who were above the income from the tax authorities. If this fails, or if we have to pay retroactive rent, we as housing also reclaim the property tax."

Source: NOS.nl/ © DUTCH HEIGHT