BOND PRECAIRE WOONVORMEN

anti-squat

Call: October 30 action at Portaal in Leiden

Jennifer is a single mother who is expecting her second child. She is due on November 5th. To escape from a violent home situation, she fled to an anti-squat house owned by Ad Hoc. Her child goes to daycare in Leiden, but Jennifer has not yet built up enough waiting time to get social housing here. This while Portaal wants to demolish her house this year. Because Ad Hoc and Portaal refuse to give an exclusion about the date, it makes it impossible to obtain urgency.

BPW stops eviction. Court rules: Erwin can stay

Erwin is an average home seeker who, with a waiting period of several years, had no chance of finding a social rental home. As a temporary tenant in the former town hall in Schijndel, he ended up in a kind of prison. His landlord at 'De Vastgoedprotector BV' (directly affiliated with the Temporary Living Foundation) even forced his door, whereby the house 'was not ...

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Camelot and Municipality of Boxtel guilty of death by electrocution

The municipality of Boxtel, Camelot Beheer and the technical service of that organization must each pay a fine of 60,000 euros because of the death of Janneke van Gaal. The judge found the three parties guilty of wrongful death. The woman was electrocuted in January 2013 while in the shower. The judge finds that the death of the…

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Residents Dennenheuvel Bloemendaal in protest against eviction

25 Residents who live in Landgoed Dennenheuvel via Ad Hoc are protesting against eviction by owner “The Sisters of the Good Shepherd”. It is unacceptable that one group of precarious residents is exchanged for another. TOGETHER NOT ALONE Recently, the municipality of Bloemendaal decided to accommodate various groups in Dennenheuvel, including ...

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BPW receives Minister Blok: Ban Anti-squat, give tenants Rights!

On May 19, Minister Blok came on a working visit to speak with a number of flex tenants who are affiliated with the Bond Precaire Woonvorm. Our expectation came true: The Minister continues to refuse to take responsibility for the structural abuses in anti-squat and continues his plan to transform tenants and home seekers into flex tenants with less and less …

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Bond Precarious Housing and anti-squat residents receive Minister Blok

PRESS RELEASE 15 May 2015 Bond Precarious Housing and anti-squat residents receive Minister Blok On Tuesday 19 May, three anti-squat residents tell their story about living without rights in anti-squat to Stef Blok, Minister for Housing and the Civil Service. Their story is not an individual story. They are also there for other anti-squat residents who do not dare to speak out for fear…

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De Groene writes a good background story about anti-squat abuses

The research editors of the Groene Amsterdammer are writing an extensive story this week about anti-squatting and the abuses in the anti-squat sector. 'The vacancy managers have started doing what the housing associations were once established for: offering housing to people with low incomes. But unlike renting, anti-squatting is an unprotected, unregulated and insecure form of living," concludes the ...

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