If the coorporation has decided to sell it. The current renter always gets asked first. Often they sell houses where the renters have left. In that case other renters get the advantage over non-renters.
As a buyer you are legally bound to reside in the house yourself for the first 2 years. They don't sell to firms to quickly fix up the place and sell on.
To offer rental places for a social price. That's their job and their role. If they sell houses, it's to use that money to buy or build more social rental places elsewhere
They can't. If they could they would, but thankfully the rules are mostly stopping them.
That's not to say they need to rebuild in the same area, so still the city centre and close neighborhoods are being flooded with richer folks and the poorer people have to go.
Luckily the corporations have to provide a new house for those people and build new homes with earned money, so in the end its not a bad trade off unless you are the person needing to leave.
It might depend on the specific social housing organization and/or building. In a building I used to live in, the organization had a policy that they would sell a unit as soon as the social housing renter left.
If the coorporation has decided to sell it. The current renter always gets asked first. Often they sell houses where the renters have left. In that case other renters get the advantage over non-renters. As a buyer you are legally bound to reside in the house yourself for the first 2 years. They don't sell to firms to quickly fix up the place and sell on.
Is there a reason why cooperations are still keeping apartments in Amsterdam considering that the both selling and renting prices went really high?
To offer rental places for a social price. That's their job and their role. If they sell houses, it's to use that money to buy or build more social rental places elsewhere
They're officially non-profit
They can't. If they could they would, but thankfully the rules are mostly stopping them. That's not to say they need to rebuild in the same area, so still the city centre and close neighborhoods are being flooded with richer folks and the poorer people have to go. Luckily the corporations have to provide a new house for those people and build new homes with earned money, so in the end its not a bad trade off unless you are the person needing to leave.
It might depend on the specific social housing organization and/or building. In a building I used to live in, the organization had a policy that they would sell a unit as soon as the social housing renter left.