This chapter shows that housing costs in the Netherlands are increasing, because of a shortage of dwellings on the market and the recent increase in inflation. Aiming to tackle the housing market crisis for those households who are losing out has led government to work toward re-claiming control over the housing market, after control had increasingly no longer deemed needed in the past two decades and government had retreated. The chapter shows that the households concerned in terms of housing affordability and accessibility are among others the low- and middle-income households, the young, the first time buyers, and the private tenants in rental dwellings with an unregulated rent. The housing market problems, therefore, reached the top of the societal and political agenda in the past few years. Government led on negotiating solutions to facilitate new construction and the realization of new units, while temporarily re-controlling rents in the private rental sector.