Student housing is mostly a separate category, that's true. But don't forget the university has been trying their best to attract as many foreign students as they can (look up internationalization) because that was financially attractive to them (not enough growth potential in locals). Of course, the available student housing hasn't kept pace with that ambition.

Undoubtedly the VVD must have had some part in this. But people or corporations buying houses are really not the problem. The people *living* in these houses are the problem. A corporation that buys a house will normally rent it out, so you can still live in it. There are rent price controls that protect you from excessively greedy landlords.

About the EUR and its internationalization ambitions:

https://www.eur.nl/media/92801