RVN: 1400 versus 2000 euros – the same house, the same street
In Amsterdam (and in many other cities) something is happening that is increasingly treated as normal.
Someone has lived for years in a free-sector rental home. Through annual increases the rent has risen to almost 1400 euros.
A few doors down, a new household moves into exactly the same type of house. Same location, same size, garden facing south. Only difference: the condition is clearly worse. Outdated kitchen, deferred maintenance. The landlord refused to make improvements.
The new tenants are a young Dutch family.
Their rent? Almost 2000 euros per month.
Six hundred euros difference. For a worse house.
The narrative
“That’s just the market.”
“Supply and demand.”
“Housing shortage.”
The reality
This is not neutral market forces.
This is a system in which scarcity is systematically exploited.
The causes of the extreme price increases in the free sector are multiple:
Limited supply due to years of underbuilding.
Investors and institutional players treating homes as yield products.
An under-discussed but significant factor: the large inflow of high-earning expats and international workers. They can (and often will) pay substantially higher rents, which pushes the “market price” upward. Many also benefit from tax arrangements (such as the 30% ruling), increasing their net spending power.
Asylum seekers and status holders mainly put pressure on social housing, not directly on the free sector. Yet in public debate this is frequently presented as the main cause, while the expat-driven demand in the free sector remains structurally under-examined.
Landlords have a clear interest in existing tenants leaving. New contracts can then be signed at the current price, inflated by scarcity and international demand.
A basic necessity is being treated as an investment product.
OIM way out
Housing is not a luxury good.
When the price of a basic need is left entirely to pure market exploitation — and when certain groups systematically drive prices up while this is barely acknowledged — a society emerges in which more and more ordinary people are structurally squeezed.
Keep making these concrete examples visible.
Not as isolated incidents, but as a pattern.
Question for you
How long do we accept that the exact same house, on the exact same street, can be rented out for 40% more… simply because the previous tenant left?
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### RVN: 1400 versus 2000 euros – the same house, the same street
In Amsterdam (and in many other cities) something is happening that is increasingly treated as normal.
Someone has lived for years in a free-sector rental home. Through annual increases the rent has risen to almost 1400 euros.
A few doors down, a new household moves into exactly the same type of house. Same location, same size, garden facing south. Only difference: the condition is clearly worse. Outdated kitchen, deferred maintenance. The landlord refused to make improvements.
The new tenants are a young Dutch family.
Their rent? Almost 2000 euros per month.
Six hundred euros difference. For a worse house.
**The narrative**
“That’s just the market.”
“Supply and demand.”
“Housing shortage.”
**The reality**
This is not neutral market forces.
This is a system in which scarcity is systematically exploited.
The causes of the extreme price increases in the free sector are multiple:
- Limited supply due to years of underbuilding.
- Investors and institutional players treating homes as yield products.
- An under-discussed but significant factor: the large inflow of high-earning expats and international workers. They can (and often will) pay substantially higher rents, which pushes the “market price” upward. Many also benefit from tax arrangements (such as the 30% ruling), increasing their net spending power.
- Asylum seekers and status holders mainly put pressure on social housing, not directly on the free sector. Yet in public debate this is frequently presented as the main cause, while the expat-driven demand in the free sector remains structurally under-examined.
Landlords have a clear interest in existing tenants leaving. New contracts can then be signed at the current price, inflated by scarcity and international demand.
A basic necessity is being treated as an investment product.
**OIM way out**
Housing is not a luxury good.
When the price of a basic need is left entirely to pure market exploitation — and when certain groups systematically drive prices up while this is barely acknowledged — a society emerges in which more and more ordinary people are structurally squeezed.
Keep making these concrete examples visible.
Not as isolated incidents, but as a pattern.
**Question for you**
How long do we accept that the exact same house, on the exact same street, can be rented out for 40% more… simply because the previous tenant left?
#HousingCrisis #RentPrices #MarketExploitation #Expats #Amsterdam #RealityVsNarrative #RVN #OpenInternetManifest
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