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Media articles related to the BPW and its goals

The Hofluiders ring the bell for housing security in the Klokkenhof

The Hofluiders sound the bell for housing security in the Klokkenhof. The residents of the Klokkenhof have been deprived of the right to housing security for years due to internal relocations. Every two years they were offered a new flex contract at a different address in the building. Earlier last year, the residents were suddenly told that the building was being renovated

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Time is ticking in Het Klokhof

Het Klokkenhof (Amsterdam) Time is ticking in Het Klokkenhof. 144 residents have been living happily in Het Klokkenhof at Surinameplein 55 in Amsterdam for years. Beneath the surface, however, commercial landlords create precarious situations. Residents have been moving internally for eight years so that commercial landlord Vesteda can avoid a permanent contract. Now that there are plans for renovation, 100 residents are at risk of being on the streets

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February 18: Residents of Rotterdam Tweebosbuurt in action against evictions by Vestia and Alvast

Come to the presentation of requirements 18/02/21, Vestia, Hilledijk 71 #Sophuisuitvoeringtweebosbuurt February 18: Residents of Rotterdam's Tweebosbuurt in action against evictions by Vestia and Alvast Rotterdam - The wandering housing association Vestia and real estate management company Alvast are once again threatening to have dozens of Rotterdam flex tenants on the street from March 1 to put. Vestia wants to demolish more than five hundred social rental homes in the Tweebosbuurt and there

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Launch European campaign against the financialisation of housing

 The BPW is also a member of The European Action Coalition. The coalition is launching an international campaign against large-scale commodification of housing. It is the result of the elaborate neo-liberal capitalist course that, in every European country, makes life a commodity in every possible way. Whether it is squares, public space or the most basic basic needs such as housing and living. Deregulation of the housing market puts commercial interests above all of us and allows those parties to turn housing and housing into common commodities. It is not only real estate agents and housing associations who are involved in this, large visible or invisible investors and hedge funds, treat houses as commodities, not places to live in.

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Report “Guided tenants” – Vox Pop – ARTE

An excellent report has been made about the expanding lawless anti-squatting construction by ARTE “des locataires sous surveillance”. http://youtu.be/sS3PMsY-gs0 It becomes clear that Camelot has close ties with politics throughout Europe. In France, for example, Christine Boutin, former Minister for Housing, made it possible for the law to be amended to allow for the use of anti-squatting

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