Aldermen Streefland and De Vries acknowledge that the measure can lead to skewed faces among people who are looking for a house. The waiting time for a rental home at a corporation in Utrecht is approximately eleven years. But: “With this intervention, the red flag turns green again in one go,” says Streefland. “The fact that we opt for this radical measure shows how big the asylum and housing crisis is.”
Utrecht takes ‘radical’ measures to tackle the asylum crisis and housing market
