Yokohama-Ribin: Outline of the System

Yokohama Ribuin provides excellent private rental housing as public rental housing, and is a housing based on the law (Law Concerning the Promotion of Supply of Specified Excellent Rental Housing).

1. Yokohama City and the government will provide subsidies for rent reduction, so the rent burden on residents will be reduced.
2. This is a public rental housing managed by Yokohama City Housing Supply Corporation and a designated management corporation.
3. This is a family house for middle-income earners.

Those who apply must meet all of the following items.

Foreign nationals can also apply if they are recorded.

• The spouse (including those whose relationship with resident certificate is "unreported husband or wife") and relatives within the second degree.
• If you have a reason for living together, such as when you have a dependent relationship or need nursing care, you can apply for a relative within 6th degree or a relative within the third degree.
• It is not possible to apply with cohabitants other than relatives or exclude living together relatives unnaturally.
• Singles can move in outside the subsidy system for dwelling units that have passed a certain period of open recruitment period. ※There is a separate income examination.
• Applicant and relatives living together must not be gangsters prescribed in Article 2, Item 6 of the "Law Concerning the Prevention of Unfair Conduct by Gangsters".

Frequently Asked Questions (during engagement, divorce separation)

• Household income must be between 200,000 yen and 601,000 yen.
• Income (monthly income of household income) is calculated.Method of calculating income from Yokohama and RibuinYou can check it.
• If it is less than 200,000 yen, you may be able to move in, so please contact us.
• For households that exceed 601,000 yen, you can rent a house in vacant houses for more than three months with regular lease contracts.

• As a general rule, you must live in Japan and have income equal to or higher than the applicant household.

In the following cases, you may be able to move in even if you own a home. Please consult with the application form.

• If you are currently living in a significantly aging house and demolish it after moving into Yokohama and Ribuin
• If you do not own a house in your own name due to seizure or a request for removal due to legitimate reasons
• When commuting time takes more than 2 hours on the shortest route that can be generally used in the route from your home to the work location
• When renting apartments, etc. as a business

1. Rent is determined by the lease agreement between the landlord and the resident. There is a review in accordance with changes in taxes and public dues, nearby rents, prices and other economic businesses.
2. The resident burden is the amount actually paid by the resident as part of the rent, and the burden rate on the rent increases every year after occupancy starts. Changes in burden rates are made every month in which the house is managed.
3. Yokohama City subsidizes the company (landlord) for the difference between the rent and the resident burden.
   • The period of the rent reduction subsidy is 20 years from the start of housing management (15 years for houses with a competent benefit-type rent subsidy system). In order to calculate the amount of the subsidy, residents must submit the prescribed documents on income, etc. around June every year.
   • Based on documents related to income, etc., the resident burden is changed in October every year, and if the household income in the previous year exceeds a certain level, the subsidy will be discontinued.

In Yokohama and Ribuin, the rent subsidy method differs depending on the start of housing management.

Depending on the income of the resident, it is classified into type 1, 2, and type 3, and the rent burden (resident burden) of the resident is different.
This change in burden rate is made once a year, and assistance ends 20 years from the start of management.

Depending on the income of the resident, it is divided into three stages: 1-1, 1-2 type, and 1-3, and the rent burden (resident burden) of the resident is different.
The assistance will end in 15 years.