How to redesign a rent rebate system?: Experience in the Netherlands

Priemus, H.; Haffner, M.E.A.

doi:10.1080/02673037.2016.1181721

How to redesign a rent rebate system?

Title

How to redesign a rent rebate system?: Experience in the Netherlands

Author

Priemus, H. (TU Delft OLD Support RES; TU Delft OLD OTB – Research for the Built Environment)
Haffner, M.E.A. (TU Delft OLD Housing Systems; TU Delft OLD OTB – Research for the Built Environment)

Department

OLD OTB – Research for the Built Environment

Date

2017

Abstract

In 2006, responsibility for implementing the Dutch housing allowance system was transferred from the Ministry of Housing to the Tax Authority. It has since been renamed, and is now known as the ‘rent rebate system’. A number of dilemmas have become evident since the 2006 changes. Attention has shifted to how to implement the system effectively: how to limit the overconsumption of housing services, how to avoid moral hazard, how to reduce outright fraud, how to reduce the poverty trap, and how to prevent the escalation of public spending. These new dilemmas have led to the central research question in this article: how to redesign a system of rent rebates? The discussion of these dilemmas points to further changes. Proposals for a redesign of the rent rebate system in the Netherlands are presented. These proposals could also be relevant for other countries.

Subject

fraud
housing allowances
moral hazard
overconsumption
poverty trap
the Netherlands

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2016.1181721

ISSN

0267-3037

Source

Housing Studies, 32 (2), 121-139

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