Dutch housing corporations built 21,500 new homes last year, some 2,000 more than in 2024 and the highest number since their output was first monitored in 2012 by national statistics agency CBS.
Housing corporations accounted for 31% of the 69,200 new properties completed in 2025, with the rest built by investors and pension funds. Housing corporation homes are nearly always rent-controlled and intended for people on low incomes.
Some 2,900 of the new corporation homes were in Amsterdam, followed by Utrecht, Haarlemmermeer and Breda, all with more than 500. The Hague, by contrast, built very little new social housing.
The construction sector’s economic institute EIB said last month it expects 80,000 new homes to be completed this year and 84,000 in 2027. The government has set a target of 100,000.
The Netherlands has around 8.3 million homes, of which about 27% are owned by housing corporations, 58% by owner-occupiers and the rest by private-sector landlords of varying sizes.
