2023-08-08 11:37:42
To stimulate the availability of flex homes, the government has already bought two thousand. It now appears that, despite an acute housing shortage, nineteen hundred are still in storage.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Housing confirms following reporting de Volkskrant that few flexible homes have yet been installed.
One of the reasons is that there is little to choose from when it comes to flexible housing from the government. For example, only residential blocks with 3 floors and 48 homes are available. They do vary in size.
Outgoing Minister Hugo de Jonge (Public Housing) decided last year to buy 2,000 flexible homes from the government for 200 million euros.
For example, the homes are immediately available once municipalities have arranged a suitable location. Since the municipalities do not have to order them themselves, the availability of the houses would not be a delaying factor.
Only Delft and Leeuwarden have bought residential blocks
The hundred homes that have now been placed were installed in Delft in May. At the time, De Jonge also reported that half of the other nineteen hundred homes had already been “optioned”. He also expected that all flex homes will be installed before the end of 2023.
According to de Volkskrant is there another municipality besides Delft that has signed a contract to purchase flexible housing from the government. Leeuwarden has signed for two hundred homes. One hundred of these will be installed next autumn.
Discussions are also underway with other municipalities. The Ministry of Housing shows self-criticism in a response. In retrospect, the ministry would have liked to have applied less strict standards for the flex homes.
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