Meld je – alleen, of samen met je huis, buurt, wijk, bewonerscommissie of huurdersvereniging – aan voor de actie Wij Weigeren de Huurverhoging via het formulier op onze website. Let op: Dit stappenplan gaat uit van een huurverhoging per 1 juli in de gereguleerde (sociale) huursector. Hieronder vallen ook bewoners van onzelfstandige woonruimte. Indien je huurverhoging op een andere datum ingaat, dan gelden andere termijnen. Huur je in de vrije sector ? Dan heb je niet dezelfde rechten als in de gereguleerde (sociale) sector. Je kunt de huurverhoging weigeren om een signaal af te geven, maar je bouwt wel huurachterstand op en daarmee ga je in feite een mini huurstaking aan. Wij raden huurstaking als actiemethode alleen aan wanneer dit op grote schaal gebeurt en goed gecoördineerd wordt. Op dit moment is binnen onze actiegroep hier geen capaciteit voor. Heb je toch interesse in deze vorm van actie, neem dan contact op . Zie ook ons antwoord op de FAQ pagina .

2. Stop de automatische huurincasso bij je verhuurder per 1 juli aanstaande

Dat kun je per direct regelen met onze standaardbrief (download pdf) . Vul de brief in geef hem af of stuur hem op per mail of per post aan je verhuurder. Vraag gerust om een ontvangstbevestiging. Zorg ervoor dat je uiterlijk half juni de automatische incasso stopgezet hebt. Let op: Het is belangrijk dat je de huur elke maand blijft doorbetalen tot 1 juli aanstaande. Door het intrekken van het huurincasso verandert er niets aan de huurbetaling tot 1 juli.

3. Ontvangst voorstel tot huurverhoging

Voor 1 mei aanstaande krijg je schriftelijk van jouw verhuurder het voorstel tot huurprijsaanpassing: in de praktijk vrijwel altijd een huurverhoging. In deze brief staat de nieuw voorgestelde huurprijs per 1 juli aanstaande. Ook lees je dat je voor 1 juli een bezwaarschrift kunt indienen bij jouw verhuurder. Om te kunnen deelnemen aan onze actie ontraden wij je nadrukkelijk om hiervan gebruik te maken. Het verkleint je kans op succes en je zadelt jezelf alleen op met onnodig papierwerk. Het is ook niet nodig. Ontvang je het voorstel tot huurverhoging pas na 1 mei? Dan is je verhuurder mogelijk te laat met aankondigen, en mag de huurverhoging op z’n vroegst pas ingaan op 1 augustus. Deze moet dan wel opnieuw aangekondigd worden. Als dat niet gebeurt kun je succesvol bezwaar maken tegen de huurverhoging door deze te weigeren.

4. Stel een periodieke overboeking in van het oude huurbedrag naar je verhuurder

Blijf ook na 1 juli het oude huurbedrag doorbetalen. Regel via internetbankieren een periodieke overboeking van het gehele huurbedrag die je al betaalde vóór 1 juli aanstaande. Startdatum van deze nieuwe periodieke overboeking is 1 juli (of de dag waarop je gewend bent om de huur te betalen). Daarmee weet je zeker dat je het oude huurbedrag blijft betalen en voorkom je dat je huurachterstand opbouwt.

5. Stel een periodieke overboeking in van de huurverhoging naar je spaarrekening.

Stel ook een periodieke overboeking in met het bedrag van de huurverhoging naar je spaarrekening. Door vanaf juli aanstaande het bespaarde geld opzij te zetten, voorkom je in de toekomst eventuele schulden. (zie stap 9)

Stop the highest rent increase in 30 years!

Rents have increased since 1993 141%! This year there will be a maximum of that again 5.8% on top of! This will result in a total rent increase of 155% in 2024 compared to 1993. While our wages have been moderated, the rent has become unaffordable after years of cutbacks, mismanagement and market forces. To tackle the housing crisis, the government must structurally invest in public housing instead of unilaterally passing the bill on to the tenants!

A quarter of tenants cannot make ends meet financially after paying the rent! Action group 'We Refuse the Rent Increase' (WWDH) is therefore fighting for social security and a multi-year rent freeze. We do this by massively refusing the annual rent increase as of July 1 based on a simple step-by-step plan. How? look at it Step-by-step plan and join us! Sign up and becomes active in one of our local networks!

about us

Signing up for our action and following the step-by-step plan are the first steps you can take as a tenant to refuse the rent increase and enforce a rent freeze, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. What happens after you register? What can you expect from us, and what do we expect from you? What other steps can you take to enforce our rent freeze demand and make our campaign a success? We go into more detail on the page about us. Do you have a specific question? Then take a look between our Frequently Asked Questions.

The action campaign We Refuse the Rent Increase is an initiative of and is partly made possible by the Bond Precaire Woonvormen (BPW). Want to know more about this association that fights for the right to housing and the city, join and join the national solidarity network? Read more on the page about the union.

step-by-step plan - Refuse the rent increase

Refusing the rent increase in the regulated (social) sector and as an occupant of non-self-contained accommodation (rooms) starts with following the steps in our Step-by-Step Plan. Click on the arrow to read a detailed explanation of each step. Prefer the complete step-by-step plan as a clear PDF? Download here in Dutch or in English. Do you have questions about the Step-by-Step Plan or our action method? See if you can find the answer on our frequently asked questions page (FAQ the rent increase)

before July 1st

1. Sign up!

Sign up – alone or together with your house, neighbourhood, district, residents' committee or tenants' association – for the action We Refuse the Rent Increase via this form on our website.

Note: This step-by-step plan assumes a rent increase as of 1 July in the regulated (social) rental sector. This includes residents of independent living space. If your rent increase takes effect on a different date, different terms apply.

Do you rent in the free sector? Then you do not have the same rights as in the regulated (social) sector. You can refuse the rent increase to give a signal, but you do build up rent arrears and with that you are in fact entering into a mini rent strike. We only recommend strike action as a method of action if it is done on a large scale and is well coordinated. There is currently no capacity within our action group for this. Are you still interested in this form of action, please get in touch. See also our answer to the FAQ page.

2. Stop the automatic rent collection from your landlord as of 1 July

You can arrange this immediately with our standard letter (download pdf)! Fill in the letter and send it by e-mail or post to your landlord. Feel free to ask for a confirmation of receipt. Make sure that you stop the direct debit before mid-June you have stopped the direct debit.

Note: It is important that you continue to pay the rent every month until July 1. Withdrawing the rent collection will not change the rent payment until July 1.

3. Receipt of rent increase proposal

Before May 1st Soon you will receive a written proposal from your landlord to adjust the rent: in practice, this is almost always a rent increase. This letter contains the newly proposed rental price as of 1 July. You can also read that you can submit a notice of objection to your landlord before 1 July. To be able to participate in our promotion, we strongly advise you not to use this. It reduces your chance of success and you only saddle yourself with unnecessary paperwork. Nor is it necessary. Will you only receive the proposal for a rent increase after 1 May? Then your landlord may have announced too late, and the rent increase may not take effect until 1 August at the earliest. This must then be announced again. If that does not happen, you can successfully object to the rent increase by refusing it.

4. Set up a new automatic transfer of the old rent to your landlord

Continue to pay the old rent after 1 July. Arrange a periodic transfer via internet banking of the entire rental amount that you already paid before 1 July. The start date of this new standing order is July 1 (or the day on which you are used to paying the rent). This way you can be sure that you will continue to pay the old rent and prevent you from building up rent arrears.

5. Set up another automatic transfer of the rent increase to your savings account.

Also set up a periodic transfer with the amount of the rent increase to your savings account. By putting aside the saved money from next July, you prevent any debts in the future. (see step 9)

After July 1st

You have already taken the most important steps! Please note that you are not doing anything that it is illegal. You can always stop participating in our action and reverse the steps mentioned above. Read what the Legal Counter (Juridisch Loket) has to say about the legal possibility of refusing a rent increase.

Refusing the rent increase can be quite exciting for some tenants. Also after July 1, seek support from one of the local solidarity networks or set up one yourself. Together with your neighbours, you are stronger against your landlord!

6. You continue to pay the old rent

From July 1st you continue to pay the old rent and put the amount of the rent increase into your savings account each month, as described above. Your landlord's rent collection agency might notice that you have not paid the rent increase and send you an automatically issued payment reminder. The collection agency might send you a payment reminder for the rent arrears. The landlord or the collection agency does not have a legal basis on sending a reminder. Therefore, you are not in debt arrears.

7. Payment Reminders

The landlord might continue to send regular payment reminders whose tone can become increasingly threatening. These letters have no legal basis. 1st reminder, 2nd reminder, demand, last warning, pass on data to the municipality, pass on data to the collection agency, threaten with a bailiff: landlords are persistent and intimidating, while these letters are not permitted by law: after all, you are not in debt arrears.

It is also possible that your landlord contacts you by telephone about your “debt” and attempt to negotiate payments. You only have to say that you are not in debt arrears and that the landlord needs to sort this out internally.

8. Receipt of registered letter

If you have not submitted a notice of objection to your landlord before July 1 and you have not paid the rent increase, the landlord can only do one thing. They have to send you a registered letter within three months after July 1 (so before October 1st of that year). In this letter, the landlord repeats his rent increase proposal from the the 1st May. This is the legal route the landlord must follow in order to obtain the rent increase. The letter is registered because the landlord must be able to prove to the Rent Commission at a later date that the tenant was aware of the proposal.

Didn't receive a registered letter?

If you refuse the rent increase, the landlord must have sent a registered letter 3 months after the effective date of the rent increase, containing the rent increase proposal again. In most cases that is October 1.

Is your landlord too late in sending a registered letter? before October 1st then the rent increase will legally not take place as of 1 July. Congratulations, you have successfully refused the rent increase!

9. Did you receive a registered letter?

If your landlord does send a registered before October 1st, then as a tenant you have to decide what to do:

Either you decide to pay the rent increase retroactively. To do this, use the money that you have put aside in your savings account since 1 July.
Or the tenant decides to submit a petition to the Rent Commission (Huurcommissie) (see next step).

We only recommend submitting a petition to the Rent Assessment Committee if there is a real chance that you will be vindicated. This means that the registered letter must contain formal errors (missing copy of the original rent increase proposal, for example), was delivered incorrectly or too late, and other exceptional situations. If the registered letter has been sent on time and no errors have been made in the procedure by the landlord, it is almost always impossible to have the decision of the legally established Rental Committee come out in your favor.

Find out whether going to the Rent Assessment Committee is (or can be) promising by obtaining information from the legal counter, a lawyer, a local (tenant) consultation hour, our Frequently asked questions page or by emailing us.

Have you decided to pay the rent increase after all? Don't worry, we'll have another chance next year. In the meantime, stay

10. Filing an application with the Huurcommissie

If you decide in the previous step to go to the Huurcommissie, you must submit a petition before November 1st. If necessary, contact your own tenants' organization for help with filing a petition.

The costs for submitting a petition to the Rental Committee are 25 euros and as a tenant you will receive an invoice for this. Tenants with social assistance benefits or comparable income can be exempt from paying the 25 euros.

11. Handling of Huurcommissie

Now that you have notified the Huurcommissie, you will have to wait for their response. The Rent Commission can ask you to send additional documents, make a presiding decision or summon you to a hearing. Even then you can contact your tenants' organization for support or report this to us.

DISCLAIMER

This website provides a step-by-step plan for formally refusing a rent increase. As a tenant, you remain responsible in all cases for the steps you take or have taken when refusing a rent increase. The initiators of this website accept no liability in any form whatsoever.

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We regularly organize online webinars to inform residents and tenant associations about the progress of the campaign 'We refuse the rent increase' and to answer questions. Want to know more? Sign up through the form!

Residential consultation hours

There are tenant consultation hours in various cities where you can ask questions or become active in the campaign campaign We Refuse the Rent Increase. Curious about what is being organized in your area?

For questions or contact you can email to info@wijweigerendehuurverhoging.nl

news

Invitation to national action meeting | September 21, 2:00 PM

Dear supporters, In our fight for affordable housing and against annual rent increases, we are organizing a national meeting on September 21 in Den Bosch for local WWDH groups and active participants in the campaign.

Our promotion is starting!

It is July 1, the day on which the highest rent increase in 30 years is introduced, which means that this is also the day that our promotion starts again!

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Action material

Do you want to commit yourself to our campaign? You can! Anyone who refuses the rent increase or supports our action can order action material via de Rode Lap! There are posters, stickers & flyers available to show your entire neighborhood that you refuse the rent increase this year! We encourage residents, neighbors, associations, or (action) groups to organize a flyer campaign locally and to go door-to-door against the rent increase! Do you want tips or help to organize such a local action? contact us.