MPs vote to press ahead with tougher rent controls legislation

MPs have voted to press ahead with legislation to expand rent controls to cover more homes in the Netherlands, two days after housing minister Hugo de Jonge published his finalised proposals. MPs had the option of ruling the legislation controversial, which would have meant it would be put on ice until a new coalition government had been put together. But both the far-right PVV and Pieter Omtzigt’s NSC voted to continue with the draft bill, even though both parties had...