50In that regard, the Vlaamse Regering claims that the condition for the existence of a ‘sufficient connection’ between the prospective buyer or tenant and the commune in question is justified inter alia by the purpose of responding to the housing needs of the less affluent local population, in particular socially weak individuals and young families as well as single persons not yet in position to build up sufficient capital to purchase or rent immovable property in the target communes. That section of the local population is effectively excluded from the property market owing to the arrival of financially stronger population groups from other communes who can afford the high land and building costs in the target communes.
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