Loting: how the housing lottery works
What it is
With loting the order of candidates is drawn at random instead of being set by registration time. The Rijksoverheid says landlords allocate a small share of homes by lottery and that everyone has an equal chance, even with a short registration. Wooniezie says that everyone who responds has an equal chance, and at Thuis in Limburg your registration time does not count.
Who can be drawn
You need to be registered at the portal and respond to the home. The corporation can still set requirements, for example for income and household size, and asks for documents to establish your income (Rijksoverheid).
What a draw looks like at Klik voor Wonen
The Klik voor Wonen page says you have three days to respond to a listing, after which the system draws the first candidate from all responses. The page then asks you to say within 24 hours whether you want to view the home. Other portals may use different periods.
After the draw
If you are considered for a home, the corporation contacts you about next steps, such as a viewing or documents (Thuis in Limburg).
Lottery, registration time and first responder
The three methods can all appear on one portal. For registration-time homes the longest registration goes first (see the guide on registration time); for first-responder homes speed counts; for lottery homes neither does. Where speed does count, being among the first to know helps: Rent Agent’s Telegram message shows the allocation model of the home, so you can tell which kind it is.
Sources
- Rijksoverheid: Hoe lang duurt het voordat ik een huurwoning krijg?
- Wooniezie
- Klik voor Wonen: Hoe werkt het?
- Thuis in Limburg
- Rijksoverheid: Kom ik in aanmerking voor een sociale huurwoning van een woningcorporatie?
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