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Stop the eviction of Van Baerle Voor Buuren

Amsterdam is increasingly losing its soul and integrity. Once a city for and by the people, now a city for project developers and big capital. Communities that have shaped the city and are being driven out for the sake of profit margins. The resident group Van Baerle Voor Buren, however, is one of the last bastions standing in the gentrified Museumkwartier. The tenants come from diverse backgrounds and ethnicities and represent the aforementioned communities. However they might be forced out as well by H&R Holding, a major property investor in Amsterdam.

Launch European campaign against the financialisation of housing

Actie, In de media / Door Abel

De BPW is ook lid van The European Action Coalition. De coalitie lanceert een internationale campagne tegen het op grote schaal tot koopwaar maken van wonen. Het is het resultaat van de uitgebreide neo-liberaal kapitalistische koers die in elk Europees land, het leven op alle mogelijke vlakken tot koopwaar maakt. Of het nu pleinen zijn, …

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Housing campaigners protest against EU urban policies in Amsterdam

Nieuws, WP Post / Door Abel

Housing organisers from across Europe are coming together this weekend to protest against the adoption of the EU Urban Agenda by the 23 Housing Ministers of Europe in Amsterdam. Three protests and an alternative conference are planned by the European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and to the City, a network of groups …

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Defend the Right to Housing and to the City – Call for International Action Amsterdam – 28th to 30 of May

Actie, WP Post / Door Abel

Join the international Action and confront the meeting of the 23 EU housing ministers. Don”e;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 …

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Guardian Property: Freedom at Another’s Expense

Nieuws, WP Post / Door Abel

While the use of property guardians as a development tool is problematic, several (contradictory) lessons can be drawn from their sporadic freedom to transform the dwellings assigned to them. Living in a Guardian Property is not a noble act. Property guardians are tools. Their primary purpose is to maintain the value of an empty property and the …

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TTIP: a threat to social housing, land rights and democratic cities

Nieuws, WP Post / Door Abel

By undersigning groups and persons, on April 17th, 2015 Housing Action Groups in Europe, Friday, 17th April 2015 The undersigning organisations, united in the struggle for the right to housing and to the city, strongly support the protests against the planned free trade agreement TTIP (“Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership” between EU and USA) …

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Poor fetishes, poor critiques: gentrification as violence

Nieuws, WP Post / Door Abel

Hating on hipsters is not the answer to gentrification. If we want to reclaim our cities, we should organize for genuinely affordable housing in common. Recently, ROAR published an article entitled The Poor Fetish. The piece argues that in cities like London, bored and alienated middle-class people working in ‘bullshit jobs’ are driving gentrification because …

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Say No to MIPIM and AUSTERITY, Yes to Housing Rights! Actionweek 15th to 20th of October London.

Nieuws, WP Post / Door Abel

Ben je BPW lid en wil jij deelnemen aan deze actieweek in London? Neem dan op korte termijn contact op met de BPW. Er zijn nog reistickets beschikbaar voor mensen die willen deelnemen aan dit internationale protest! Lees voor meer informatie onderstaande oproep COME TO LONDON on the 15th to 20th OCTOBER! This is a …

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Camelot Europe en Metropoolregio Amsterdam aan de schandpaal in Cannes

Nieuws, WP Post / Door Abel

Dit jaar zijn de zakenmannen op het jaarlijkse vastgoedfestijn Mipim in Cannes (11 tot 14 maart) niet alleen. Voor het eerst in 25 jaar van ongestoord vastgoeddeals sluiten in het lentezonnetje aan de Côte d’Azur, zullen ze een aantal van hun ‘eindgebruikers’ ontmoeten: De slachtoffers van megalomane projectontwikkelingen, ontheemden en uit huis geplaatsten die hun …

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European Day of Actions for the Right to Housing and to the City and against Speculation on October 19

Laat een reactie achter / Nieuws, WP Post / Door Abel

Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin, Budapest, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Geneva, Lisbon, Lorient, Malaga, Milan, Paris, Poznan, Rotterdam, Rouen, Rome, Toulouse, Warsaw mobilized!!! The European coordination of actions for the right to housing and to the city and against speculation calls for a day of action in Europe to fight for the right to housing and to the city, …

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