Overview
- The Raad van State issued its most negative advice, warning the proposal creates unequal treatment and conflicts with Article 1 and municipalities' housing duties.
- Demissionary housing minister Mona Keijzer said she will send the bill to the Tweede Kamer as soon as possible and will later deliver a fuller response to the critique.
- The VNG and several major cities called the plan unworkable, saying it would hinder statutory housing tasks, force new emergency sites, and heighten social tensions.
- A separate PVV amendment banning priority already passed the Tweede Kamer within a broader regiewet now before the Eerste Kamer, and Keijzer says that text needs repair because it even blocks emergency allocations.
- COA reports that roughly 6 to 10 percent of freed social rental homes go to statushouders, underscoring the debate's scale within the wider housing shortage.