The PVV is supported by FvD, Groep Van Haga, BBB and JA21. “Where the sons and daughters of an average Dutch person have to wait for a home, a status holder has that right and we think that is unjust,” said MP Goudzwaard of JA21. They will support the bill.
The governing party VVD agrees with them that it is not the intention that municipalities with a housing shortage give priority to status holders while other residents have been on a waiting list for a long time. But whether the VVD will support the PVV’s proposal without question, MP De Groot does not want to say. “We are missing a solution to the problem: too few homes,” he said.
Symptom relief
The CDA calls the PVV proposal symptomatic relief and sees the solution in building more houses so that status holders can integrate faster. “The people we are talking about here have refugee status. So pretending you can put them on a plane is a very dangerous thought,” said MP Geurts.
The SGP finds the bill to delete the priority rule from the Housing Act, especially from a legal point of view, is not strong. Municipalities will continue to have the legal task of receiving status holders, with or without this priority rule, said MP Bisschop. “Is the goal achieved with this bill? The asylum flow must be drastically curtailed. Because the reality is that we saddle municipalities with major problems.”
PvdA, GroenLinks and SP, among others, did not participate in the debate. They stated in writing that they were not in favor and that they were mainly looking for solutions in the housing market.
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