Each municipality has a very large number of vacant dwellings, some for as long as 5 or 10 years. I propose that each municipality should check on the ground the occupancy of all the dwellings and therefore keep up-to-date records. All vacant dwellings, regardless of ownership, should be offered to citizens for rent at a non-profit rent. This would help to solve citizens' housing problems more quickly and prevent the existing housing stock from falling into disrepair, houses from being empty and blocks of flats from being unoccupied. At the moment, most people who do not have a housing solution are waiting for municipal, social or non-profit housing for 10 or 20 years or even more, because there is not enough housing on the market. This means that a single person or a divorced person in their 50s who is without regular employment cannot get a flat, or is prevented by current legislation from getting a suitable flat under the Housing Act and in all the housing tenders, because there are too many applicants than there are empty flats on offer through the municipal tenders for non-profit rental housing. Single persons without regular employment in the country have no chance at all of obtaining housing, because they are always outranked in the scoring by applicants with families, applicants with children and applicants with regular employment.