# Cabinet acknowledges a structural housing shortage without closing it

Date: 2021

Through the 2010s–2020s Dutch housing supply lagged household formation. [Rutte](/people/mark-rutte) cabinets set targets they missed. Acknowledgement plus missed targets is a completed housing-policy stance, not a single statute.

## People

- Mark Rutte: https://factrail.ai/people/mark-rutte

## Drivers

- Cost-of-Living Pressure: https://factrail.ai/drivers/econ-cost-of-living-pressure

## Sources

- https://www.oecd.org/housing/netherlands/
- https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/woningmarkt

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/nl-housing-shortage-rutte