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Despite starting construction on over 5,000 homes in 2023, Amsterdam fell short of its ambitious goal of 7,500 new units, highlighting ongoing challenges in addressing the city's chronic housing shortage. "These are tough times for housing construction, and we notice that," admitted Housing Construction Alderman Reinier van Dantzig. "But compared to previous crisis years, we're doing well thanks to hard work by all parties."

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Amsterdam is changing its housing construction strategy. Instead of building homes in business districts or creating new neighborhoods like in recent years, the city will create 20,000 new homes in existing neighborhoods that need more investment. With this densification, the city wants to increase its number of houses and improve the livability in its neighborhoods, housing alderman Reinier van Dantzig announced.

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Just pass the law that allows rent regulation in the free sector, housing aldermen Dennis de Vries of Utrecht and Reinier van Dantzig of Amsterdam told Trouw ahead of parliament’s debate about outgoing Housing Minister Hugo de Jonge’s bill.

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The city of Amsterdam is taking extra measures to stimulate housing construction. The construction market is struggling, and, as a result, fewer homes are being built than needed to solve the housing crisis. Among other things, the city will reexamine land prices in transformation contracts to see if it can lower them for developers.

The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has prohibited waste management firm Afvalprocessing Rijnmond from taking over Amsterdam waste processor AEB. The acquisition would create a company that is too powerful and would lead to higher prices, possibly increasing the cost of household waste processing, if the takeover were allowed to go through, the ACM said.

The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has prohibited waste management firm Afvalprocessing Rijnmond from taking over Amsterdam waste processor AEB. The acquisition would create a company that is too powerful and would lead to higher prices, possibly increasing the cost of household waste processing, if the takeover were allowed to go through, the ACM said.

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