Housing Associations Call on Politicians: Let Go of 'Ideological Percentages' of Housing Construction

The city's housing corporations are calling on Amsterdam politicians to abandon the - set in concrete - division of housing types in new construction projects (40 percent social housing, 40 percent mid-range rental and purchase and 20 percent high segment). "A dogmatic focus on percentages could well lead to far fewer homes being built in total," says Ymere chairman Erik Gerritsen. Together with Anne-Jo Visser, director of the Amsterdam Federati…