2023-05-31 11:14:00
The Housing and Flemish Periphery committees of the Flemish parliament gave the green light on Wednesday to the “Living in your own region” decree, which allows municipalities facing strong real estate pressure to reserve land or housing for people who have a connection with the community.
The Constitutional Court had annulled a similar decree in 2013. The Flemish government has since refined the system in a new text which allows financial intervention by municipalities up to 50 to 100% on the land of a dwelling.
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The text contains a series of conditions. Only the most expensive municipalities will be taken into account, that is to say regarding ninety, according to the Minister of Housing, Mathias Diependaele. Buyers must be registered in the municipality or a neighboring municipality for at least five uninterrupted years during the previous ten years, not own real estate and have a salary that does not exceed a ceiling yet to be defined. It is regarding 45,000 euros per year for a single person and 70,000 euros for a couple. If the property remains on sale for more than nine months, it becomes available to everyone.
The objective of the text is to erect a “barrier once morest social eviction” in expensive municipalities where natives struggle to find housing. According to the two N-VA ministers, this is a “real and significant problem” which occurs in particular in the outskirts of Brussels.
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