Action: Stop evictions in Reusel by housing corporation Wooninc., November 5, Winston Churchilllaan 87, Eindhoven.

Dozens of vulnerable residents of the Busseltje in Reusel are at risk of being made homeless by housing corporation Wooninc. After 7 years, the vacancy permit has expired and Wooninc. wants to replace the residents with anti-squat residents without rights. This musical chairs with tenants must stop immediately. Do not treat residents like scrap! We call on everyone to show solidarity and come to the presentation of demands ✊ ❤️🏠 

Action committee Busseltje Must Remain and the Association of Precarious Housing (BPW) demand:

✊Let residents live in their (t)home. Stop the evictions of all residents and respect their tenancy rights. 

✊Prevent homelessness and the exchange of tenants for residents without rights by Wooninc. and HOD anti-squat agency. Living is not musical chairs!

✊Municipality Reusel de Mierden must now work on housing security for everyone. Prevent a major social drama through homelessness and evictions of young, old and vulnerable tenants.

Come to the presentation of demands and share this call to show solidarity with the residents of the Busseltje! Read more in the requirements article on the website. 

Action Plan 2024-2026: What do we want to achieve!

At the last General Members Meeting (GMM) the new Action Plan 2024-2026 “Solidarity in the Housing Struggle, towards a broadening of the BPW” was adopted. Here is a short summary of the plan:

The BPW has developed a way of participation and solidarity that works better and better.  

With this we also want to demand housing justice in the coming period: We will further expand our actions in the field of housing security, affordability, availability and sustainability; the core elements of the right to housing. Our ten local groups in the cities and regions fight together with residents who are in trouble due to housing exploitation for just solutions. The BPW sees the housing struggle as part of a broader struggle for a free, social, solidary and just society.

The Association wants to develop further into a broader membership association during the period of the action plan. Growth, especially of active members, helps to increase our reach and achieve our goals. By structurally and actively linking association membership to the practice of mutual aid, the 'reproduction factor' increases: more people are active and remain so in our movement. As a result, we see sustainable growth, higher participation rates, greater social diversity.

To enable further development, we will provide workshops, webinars and training to offer members even more tools to guide residents. Concrete action points have also been drawn up to expand the association and its local and national working groups. The BPW will also continue to work for the national action coalition Woonopstand, the action campaign Wij Weigeren de Huurverhoging (WWDH) and will continue to implement the project 'Housing security the basis'. Over the next two years, we want to activate even more people in the housing struggle with housing consultation hours, actions, campaigns and publications on themes such as homelessness, affordability, housing and security of existence - so to further anchor the association in the housing movement.

 With this we can develop greater impact and build a broader solidarity movement that fights housing from the bottom up in the various areas. Housing security for everyone. It is possible. It must be.

To read the entire Action Plan 2024-2026 “Solidarity in the Housing Struggle, towards a broadening of the BPW”: download it as PDF

Action against the abolition of the LVV scheme (bed-bath-bread) in Rotterdam, September 10, 1:00 PM

Rotterdam is the only municipality to discontinue the LVV (bed-bath-bread) scheme.

This means that undocumented people lose their last safety net in the city. The municipality must maintain basic shelter and guidance for the most vulnerable Rotterdammers. This policy leads to extreme human suffering.

The BPW supports this action and fights for housing security for everyone. Many groups are now excluded from this, even undocumented people have the right to security of existence. The abolition of shelter is inhuman and barbaric.

That is why we are taking action to change the course. At 13:00 we will gather at the Stationsplein. After short speeches the march will start. We will end at the City Hall.

Join us and show that undocumented Rotterdammers are not alone!

For more information see this call from Platform Stop Racism.

📍Location: Stationsplein, Rotterdam
🗓 Date: November 10, 2024
⏰ Time: 13:00

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