Sociaal Verhuurkantoor Social Renting Office in Flanders

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Sociaal VerhuurkantoorSocial Renting Officein
Flanders
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The Flemish housing market

• Property of the occupant
• Property of a private landlord
• Social Hiring Company

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Social Hiring Companies

• Regulated legislation
• Possibility for homeless
• Limited offer (5)
• Wait at least 3 years
• Renting price income
• Livelong lease

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Private landlords

• A disregarded market
• Legislation based on liberal principles
• Small number of houses / landlord
• Renting price ? quality house
• Problems for those with a small income

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Side effects

• Only for those who can't buy a house
• The risks increase, the market shrinks
• Landlords refuse risky tenants
• Looking for new systems

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The task of the SRO

• To rent houses, to let these
• Accompany the tenant
• Cooperate with social welfare

• Guarantees in exchange for a reasonable rental
  price. extra incentives

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Results

• 10 years 4.000 houses
• Each year 10
• Possibilities increase
• Subsidy that grows with the offer
• New instruments for the landlord

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For the tenant

• Ordinary house in a ordinary street
• Rent not so cheap (except with a housing benefit)
• Tenant accompaniment

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To assign the house

• Objectively and controllable assign
• Specific a point system
• Income (20)
• The need for a house (20)
• Children (6)
• Mutation (3)

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The SRO-tenant

• New tenant
• 50 absolute minimum, 75 a replacements income
• 10 had no home before
• Leaving tenant
• 1/3 go to social housing company
• 1/10 because the SRO stopped the contract

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To end is this the solution ?

• Needs for more of everything social private
  houses, payable and quality
• More relief in the social welfare
• Seek for new perspectives

Is a qualitatively house for everyone an
illusion ?