🇧🇪 2 programs
Every program we track here, with its catch & the official source. No country dossier yet — the programs are the whole story for now.
Every program we track here — each carries its own verification badge and reality check. Nothing on this page is the whole story; the program pages are.
Only caretaker housing fits these filters here — listed below.
Housing in exchange for work, upkeep, a fee or restoration capital — not an incentive, and not a way in. This program does not provide a visa.
Brussels-Capital, Belgium
Property guardian
This program does not provide a visa.
Brussels formalises 'precarious occupation' contracts where public owners (municipalities, social housing companies, citydev) and private firms (Camelot, Lancelot) let people live in vacant buildings until redevelopment.
PromiseCheap, sometimes social-mission housing in Brussels in buildings awaiting renovation.
What it takesOccupants commit to leave as soon as the owner's project starts; sui generis contract, not a lease. Guide dates from 2018.
What Belgium asks of your language on the road to residence & citizenship — with the source for every line.
No language requirement is on record for this destination yet. That is a gap in our research, not a confirmation that none exists.