Being flexible sounds nice. But when it comes to our livelihoods, is it still so much fun? More and more people are dealing with a flexible contract. Not only in connection with work, but also in connection with housing (renting). What does this development mean and is it related? Mathis van…
Talk show de Figurant TV about making living and working more flexible Read More »
In May and June we organize a whole series of activities with the Bond Precaire Woonvorm. We would like to invite you to participate. In this post you can read what there is to do and experience in the next two months! 21 May – 19:00 – Den Bosch Screening of the documentary Alles Flex? In …
On October 19, publishing house Octavo Publicaties invites activists and thinkers to participate in a workshop with Isabell Lorey, one of the most important thinkers on current precarity, on collective organization and resistance at the intersection of insecurity, housing and social struggle. De Bond Precaire Woonvorm participates in the workshop, and …
Workshop Isabell Lorey: precarious living and social struggle Read More »
The tenants of homes on Raadhuislaan in Mijdrecht who live "flexibly" via Zwerfkei are threatened with eviction in the short term. While there is a great lack of social rental housing, the municipality of De Ronde Venen, itself the owner of the homes, does not provide a home. The result: people over 50 and young people are inexorably put on the street. The houses…
Residents of Mijdrecht in action against evictions and sale of social rental homes Read More »
Today housing corporation Stadgenoot is celebrating the new youth contract, an anomaly in the long dutch tradition of social housing. And what a place to celebrate it: in a newly built residential building that gained notoriety for its “poor door” Stadgenoot has its origin in a tradition of social housing that started at the …
Youth contract – enter the city through the poor door Read More »
Via Not for Sale. Today banners have appeared at various points in Amsterdam. The banners contain texts such as 'Stop selling social rent' and 'Amsterdam is not for sale'. This is out of great dissatisfaction with the current and upcoming housing policy in the city. The BPW wholeheartedly supports this excellent action! Do you also want to participate? …
Large banner campaign in Amsterdam against sale and flexibilization of social rent Read More »
Last week (30 May) we visited Stadgenoot with a wide (international) selection of tenants and residents' organizations. The visit was a great success! Politicians and corporations must listen to us. Things have to change. This solidarity visit was made possible in part by: Bond Precaire Woonvorm,Recht op Stad, Tenants' Associations from South, Oud West and East, ...
Today this letter was published in the Volkskrant. Active tenant Frans van Tartwijk drafted this together with 27 supporting (tenant) organizations and persons. Join the active tenant struggle before there is no affordable home left because of this crooked policy. Do you also want to do something about waiting lists, rent increases, sales and more flexibility? …
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…
Camelot and Municipality of Boxtel guilty of death by electrocution Read More »
A rent striker in a working-class neighborhood in Amsterdam playfully reveals which neighbors continue to pay rent in 1933 | www.memorvannederland.nl With the new rent law, the umpteenth blow is dealt in the face of social housing, of the tenants and the house seekers who will pay the price for this. It …
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