The housing shortage is an open door and so we kick each other's in
For BPW Amsterdam, the artist Vita Soul Wilmering recounts her experiences and experiences with anti-squatting, housing and gentrification in Duindorp (The Hague).
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Housing Happening – June 17 – Neude – Utrecht
Art + Food + Live Music + Political Discussion = Housing Happening. On Sunday 17 June from 13:00 to 17:00, the Utrecht Group We Want Woonruimte is organizing a Housing Happening. Previously, together with the BPW, she conducted a camping campaign for more affordable housing with housing security for (international) students. The Bond Precaire Woonvorm is also participating and …
Open letter to House of Representatives against Koerhuis motion
OPEN LETTER TO THE MEMBERS OF THE SECOND CHAMBER It is with great concern that we have taken note of the motion by VVD MP Daniel Koerhuis, who calls on the government to find ways to incorporate incentives into the landlord levy for 2019 to encourage housing associations -or to force- sell expensive social housing in order to…
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Invitation activities BPW in May and June
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 …
Support Robert Jan in the fight against evictions
A group of (temporary) tenants is currently being evicted in the Fibigerstraat in Amsterdam. Not because their houses are being demolished, but because their houses are suddenly converted. So extra temporality in temporality. An association of permanent and flex tenants does not agree with this. Because politics is gradually extending our tenancy rights…
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Large banner campaign in Amsterdam against sale and flexibilization of social rent
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? …
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BPW supports occupation “Not For Sale”.
Suppose you are tired of having to wait for years for an affordable social rental home. And then they are also sold en masse right under your nose. Well. Then you take matters into your own hands! Thus it happened. This afternoon, a group of activists occupied a social rental home in Amsterdam-West. The house will soon be…
Defend the Right to Housing and to the City – Call for International Action Amsterdam – 28th to 30 of May
Join the international Action and confront the meeting of the 23 EU housing ministers. Don't let them talk behind closed doors about the future of our cities! On the last weekend of May, the housing ministers of all EU countries are meeting in Amsterdam to start work on the first EU Urban Agenda, linked to …
The anti-social housing policy of the cabinet
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 …
Coal kit is not for sale! Abolition of rent protection leads to resistance
The battle that is being fought in the Kolenkitbuurt is part of a broader battle: that of the right to the city. Because housing corporations and the city council have decided that the neighborhood should be transformed into a hip neighborhood for rich people, through projects such as the Koelkit project, we have decided together with the residents in ...
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