Anyone who takes a student into their home must be able to evict them when they sell their home. Minister Keijzer wants to make that possible by law. The government can also make hospita rental more attractive in other ways, she thinks.
Housing Minister Mona Keijzer wants to encourage the comeback of the landlady with a change in the law: residents who sell their home must be able to dissolve the rental contract with a student. In doing so, she wants to use a “reasonable notice period”.
The proposal is intended to remove obstacles to hospita rentals, such as the permission often lacking from mortgage lenders. These fear that students will remain in the property after the sale, making it more difficult to sell.
Housing shortage
Keijzer hopes the change in the law will help alleviate the room shortage. The government wants to create 60,000 new student housing units, partly through hospice rental. The minister has also agreed with housing corporations to conduct experiments with allowing students to sublet. This should eventually become the norm.
Regarding social welfare recipients considering room rental, Keijzer sees no possibility of excluding rental income from the welfare calculation. She believes social welfare should be low enough to motivate people to look for a job. However, she is looking into increasing the tax exemption for room landlords. (HOP, OL)
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