Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "How The Netherlands Failed At Housing" video.
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The Dutch population isn't growing, the number of foreign settlers is growing with about 300k every year. So demand isn't adressed, it's out of control. Stop allowing people in for one year and the shortage would be solved.
Government didn't ask universities to stop taking foreign students, they asked them to stop actively acquistioning them. It's out of control too because refuses to take control of it's universities and for example use those to educate the Dutch well and not ruining student culture, the Dutch language and general education levels.
The farmland is not the government's property, and the idea that you can just allocate that land to yoga studio's, housing of expat ICT workers or refugees on welfare is in denial of the fact in an economy the secondary, tertiary and quarternary sector sit upon the primary sector.
Housing is also private, even social housing is property of private non profit associations. But goverment has appropriated those to house 'refugees', not from the wars in Germany, Belgium or even Ukraine, but people who crossed several safe countries to get such a house, by letting the surpass the waiting lists of between 8 and 23 years.
It's not that agriculture shouldn't change, but the Dutch government is taking land, housing and education from the Dutch to give it to foreigners, abusing the welcoming and tolerant nature of the Dutch and demanding them to work harder to accomodate them. If you are a teacher, your job becomes much harder with every child who is not a native speaker.
So the problem is much more fundamental. Dutch government is breaking the social contract, the foundation beneath democracy, the Dutch declared in 1581 that government should serve it's people and fought an 80-year war for that. Now this government is serving people from all around the world and serving many corporata interests, but not the Dutch.
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