Woonopstand demands that the profit tax for housing corporations be abolished, but only in exchange for more say. Tenants demand more say. After all, it is their money that the housing corporations spend, while those same tenants have no say whatsoever in the decisions that the corporations make about their living environment. For example, it is still carelessly decided that social tenants must make way for home seekers who can pay higher private sector rents.

Compensation 14 billion landlord levy

The government must compensate renters in the Netherlands for years of theft of money. 14 billion was stolen from tenants via the landlord levy. Tenants must immediately receive the same treatment as buyers. After all, the latter group is favored with all kinds of stimulating and supporting regulations, while tenants have been dealing with increasingly strict rules for years, which means that many start with unacceptably high housing costs from the start of the rent. 

Tenants are equal to homeowners 

It is really high time that the decades of backwardness by various cabinets are now compensated. That means investing billions extra in the coming years to pull the social housing sector out of the doldrums and thus build a broad accessible social housing in which the profit of locust capitalists is not central but the right to decent housing. Cabinets have been deliberately destroying the social housing sector for years, so that friends in the private sector have all the space to milk us dry. In this way, large landowners are not dealt with harshly and they whistle to the bank to cash in. In the meantime, status holders are blamed by this cabinet for its own deliberate demolition policy.

Rent unaffordable

The tide must turn radically, so that truly affordable renting becomes normal for everyone again. Until then, the Woonbond must stand for renting in the Netherlands. Renting in the Netherlands is literally and figuratively left out in the cold. Hundreds of thousands of households have to choose between hot food or a warm home during the cold months.

This cabinet is not there for the people but for big business and in particular for slum landlords who are ruining the lives of hundreds of thousands of tenants through overdue maintenance, intimidation, discrimination and excessively high rents and excessive service charges. Renting in the Netherlands is burdened by the highest housing costs in Europe. It is time for the Tenants' Association to stand its ground. If the cabinet does not reverse course, a wild rent strike is looming in 2025. The Tenants' Association is losing its grip on its organised supporters.