Trouble in Meiland-paradise† The family is currently in the middle of shooting for their new Effe No Cent To Make program Chateau Assistance† It is the intention that they live as much as possible on social assistance level in order to draw attention to people who are not well off. Only… they do live in a house that a family on welfare could never afford.
Weekend boss Bart Ettekoven, who spoke with some makers of the program, reported this yesterday in Show news after an Insta juice channel (@juicechannel_) already reported which home it would be. Veronica Superguide managed to retrieve the relevant Funda advertisement, which has since been removed. There we see a well-finished terraced house, of almost 100 m2, for a price of – hold on – 1,750 euros per month!
‘Assistance housing’
For this house you must be able to submit a (joint) monthly income of at least 5,250 euros per month and you must be able to transfer two months’ rent as a deposit, according to the rental advertisement. †If Erica and Martien were really both entitled to social assistance, they would receive 1,559 euros per monthMediacourant already calculated.So the two of you; not per person.“So um… a real family on social assistance would of course never qualify for that.
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Is the criticism justified?
Bart Ettekoven thinks that the sarcastic comments that this produces, including from Mediacourant and @juicechannel_, are not entirely justified. †Now a lot of people say: ‘Someone on social assistance cannot afford that, so things are already going wrong there and they are already cheating there.’ But you can never really do it right in this casehe said yesterday in Show news. “Because if they really had lived in social housing, they would probably have had the whole country over them.“
Bart thinks that there would be a lot of bullshit. †‘Now the Meilandjes are in there for a month, a family could have been in that house too’. With that in mind, they’ve said, ‘We don’t want to occupy a social sector house for a month or two.’“
Girls do sleep in the house
The juice channel in question, Maxime Meiland hates it by the way, also reported that a source of theirs told them that the fam would secretly go home in the evening and therefore not sleep in the house at all. Nonsense, says Bart, who spoke to the makers of the program. †They have really assured me – I’ve heard it from several sides – that that really isn’t the case. They really just live in this house. There they sleep and live.”
De Meilandje not only draw attention to poverty in the Netherlands through the programme; they are also committed to the Baby Stuff Foundation. Chateau Assistance can be seen every Monday at 20:30 on SBS6 from Monday 7 March.
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