Making shared housing possible again
Hundreds of rooms in Amsterdam stand empty, while young people are unable to find an affordable place to live. Volt wants the return of friends contracts. Thanks to the proposal by Juliet Broersen, the municipality is now investigating how this can become possible again, so that students and first-time buyers can live together safely and affordably.
Read more in Het Parool.
The proposal
Shared housing is one of the best ways for young people, students, and first-time buyers to secure their first home in Amsterdam. It also ensures that existing housing is used more efficiently, helping to address the housing shortage.
However, housing associations have stopped facilitating shared housing. This is mainly because it creates a lot of administrative work to draw up a separate contract for each tenant.
Therefore, the municipal executive is being asked to investigate how housing corporations can once again make use of so-called friends contracts, as was made possible following a ruling by the Council of State in Nijmegen. The idea is that it should also become easier again in Amsterdam to rent a home together through this type of contract.
The municipal executive is asked to develop a proposal for the 2027 housing ordinance, so that shared housing becomes more attractive and easier for housing corporations and housing seekers.