Those who do not have priority in the housing market have virtually no chance
Anyone who does not have a priority arrangement has virtually no chance of finding a social rental home in Utrecht. Municipalities give priority to people with medical needs, domestic violence or status holders. Professor of housing systems Boelhouwer wonders whether these schemes are overshooting their mark. In Utrecht, 87 percent of homes last year went to people with priority. In smaller municipalities, their own residents are often given priority. According to Boelhouwer, the only solution is to build more homes, he said earlier in this article.