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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."

All you ever wanted to know about Hals, from an 18th-century biography to a 1994 novel of the artist's “lost diaries”—selected by the Rijksmuseum curator Friso Lammertse

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.

Cities slam “€2,200 for a chicken coop”, call for rent controls

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.