The National Student Union (LSVb) is seeing a significant increase in the number of students who are scammed when looking for a room. They sometimes pay thousands of euros in deposit for a house that turns out not to be for rent at all. What needs to be done?
Just like other tenants, students can soon expect rent increases of several hundred euros per year, as the government has decided not to freeze rental prices.
Poor maintenance, rising rents, and the threat to demolish or sell student housing. TU Delft students are becoming increasingly concerned about their housing say several interest groups in a report.
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
An action plan that states how in the short term more student housing will be realized in Delft, should be made. That is what the Delft City Council wants. On Thursday 17 October they voted in favour of a motion of council party STIP. In the meeting, the council discussed the Housing Monitor 2024 (in Dutch),
Alex Nedelcu believes that he’s lucky to live in a city like Delft. However, he sees that it’s not an option for every TU Delft student. It seems to him that very few new housing developments are actually geared towards students.
The Schoof Government is not going to give shared student rooms a rent allowance. Housing Minister Mona Keijzer says that it is too expensive and difficult to implement. For years, voices have been calling for students in shared housing to also receive a rent allowance. Their high monthly costs would then go down and student
Next year, nearly 400 student rooms will disappear from Aan ‘t Verlaat and Abtswoude Bloeit! Student columnist Mirte Brouwer advocates preserving these rooms until more student housing is created.
It is worth contacting the Rent Tribunal (Huurcommissie) if you feel you are paying excessive rent or service charges. In eight out of ten cases, room tenants were fully vindicated, reports news agency ANP, also in Delft.
