Municipality and housing corporations join forces to accelerate social housing construction in Utrecht
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The municipality of Utrecht and various housing corporations want to build more social rental homes. This is important so that more people can find affordable housing. Today, they signed an agreement.
This agreement is called the Utrecht Public Housing Agreement. This agreement states that more social rental homes must be built each year. The housing corporations must together build more homes than are lost.
To achieve this, agreements have been made. These agreements help to make plans faster and build faster. They also want to make better use of existing buildings.
For example, by adding an extra floor to a building.