Since the Netherlands expanded mayoral powers in 2024 to allow emergency sealing of properties targeted by serious violence, housing closures have tripled, with Rotterdam (the country's largest port city) recording 70 such closures alone. Data collected by Dutch newspaper Trouw from the Kadaster (the national land registry) shows closures rose from 46 in 2023 to 160 in 2024, with explosions — mostly caused by heavy fireworks — accounting for roughly half of cases. Legal experts and academics have raised concerns that residents with no criminal involvement, including victims of so-called "mistake explosions" where the wrong address is targeted, risk losing their homes permanently, as landlords may terminate rental contracts once a property is officially sealed.