Housing Market Trilogy: How Can We Build 100,000 New Homes a Year?

Focus on accelerating existing plans, not adding new ones

The Dutch housing market has been under pressure for nearly a decade – and for good reason. The housing shortage has grown to 396,000 homes (ABF Research), resulting in significant social and economic consequences. It is therefore understandable that political parties, especially in election times, prioritize new housing construction to reduce this deficit, each with its own approach and ideals.

But are parties truly addressing the real bottlenecks? Or are their proposals merely tackling symptoms, offering populist or superficial “solutions”?

Three Core Themes: Planning Capacity, Affordability, and the Housing System

In their election manifestos, parties put forward numerous proposals for improvement. Broadly speaking, these can be grouped into three key themes: planning capacity, affordability, and the housing system.

Rollout

Part I: Published on October 17
Part II: Published on October 24
Part III: Published on October 31