Demographer Jan Latten said that the arrival of 1.1 million additional inhabitants from abroad over the past ten years had increased pressure on the Dutch housing market. He said finding a home remained difficult despite persistent calls for more construction, and argued that asylum migration increasingly affected access to social housing.

Latten also referred to a 2023 visit by a UN special rapporteur, who said the growing housing shortage had little to do with immigration and was mainly caused by insufficient housing construction.