An estimated eighty people took part last night in the militant protest action in front of Rotterdam city hall, which was organized by Woonopstand, in collaboration with the Bond Precaire Woonvorms (BPW). The action was aimed against the new housing vision of the municipality of Rotterdam, about which the city council met last night.

The municipality of Rotterdam will meet on March 14 to discuss the new housing vision.

The national action coalition Woonopstand, which organized a large demonstration in Rotterdam in 2021, emphasizes that the new housing vision of the municipality of Rotterdam is still failing. That is why the Woonopstand will take action against the new housing vision at City Hall on March 14 at 8 p.m. in collaboration with the Precaire Housing Association (BPW).

2023 was a year of increasing social inequality, xenophobia, and repression of social movements and minorities in Europe. It has also been a year in which having a roof over your head has become self-evident for fewer and fewer people. That is why, together with the European Action Coalition, we are calling for a week of decentralized housing actions throughout Europe! Organize and mobilize!

12/01/24 – Dear supporters, we hope that this invitation reaches you in good health. In response to the impending rent increases, which are the highest in 30 years, we call on all tenants to unite and participate in our national action meeting on February 3 in Den Bosch. Together we can make a difference in the fight for affordable housing.

Message via Woonprotest Utrecht | It has now been almost two years since we demonstrated en masse on the Jaarbeursplein for our right to live. It was the start of Woonprotest Utrecht. The housing shortage has gotten completely out of hand and now politicians finally seem to be waking up a bit. The change comes in very small steps. Two years later, a number of things have changed, for example the landlord levy has been abolished and Utrecht has a vacancy ordinance.

The year is almost over and we therefore cordially invite you to end the year festively with us during a Christmas drinks on Saturday, December 16. During the drinks there will be time to reflect on the past year together, while enjoying a snack, drink and music, and to forge new (action) plans for 2024. The BPW has once again achieved many successes in 2023, which is reason enough to to celebrate this together.

The biannual meeting of the European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and the City took place in Paris from 9 to 12 November 2023. The Precarious Housing Association (BPW) has been part of this broad action coalition of 38 housing action groups from all over Europe since the start of the coalition 10 years ago. Three members of the BPW therefore traveled to Paris to participate in the four-day program during which the functioning of the coalition was discussed, organizing actions, the European Housing Action Week and strengthening mutual European solidarity. In addition, publicly accessible workshops and discussions were organized around the European housing struggle and related themes.

Today Woonopstand is taking action at the luxury new construction project Bay House in Rotterdam. In the early morning, a banner was attached to the building with the text 'Recapture the neighborhoods, expropriate the rich'. Woonopstand thus makes visible the profiteers of the housing crisis: the project developers, investors and large landowners who see housing as a revenue model. Residential revolt demands that only affordable and social construction be built, an end to the gentrification of our neighborhoods, and all private landowners and slumlords are expropriated so that cities, neighborhoods and homes are returned to the hands of the people who live there.

On October 28, Woonprotest will take action against the housing crisis, the real estate industry, government mismanagement and the ambitionless plans of most political parties. With new, concrete and immediate demands.