The demonstrators speak with the so-called housing protest against the ‘colossal housing crisis’ in our country, according to the organization.
Due to rising house prices and growing waiting lists for social housing, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find a home.
Years of waiting lists
Hundreds of thousands of people are on waiting lists for years, house prices are skyrocketing and the number of homeless people has doubled in ten years.
Sometimes people with a lower income literally have to move. They must make way for the rich. Mustapha’s social rental home in Rotterdam was demolished. Now expensive rental and owner-occupied houses are being built on that spot, which Mustapha cannot afford:
–
–
“We speak out against the sale of our right of residence, against the greedy rich who become richer while sleeping, against the suffering of hundreds of thousands of Dutch people and against the expulsion of original residents from their own neighborhoods through racist and classical housing policy.”
200 organizations
The housing protest is the start of various actions that are planned throughout the country in the coming period. More than 200 organizations have joined the initiators. The so-called residential revolt in Rotterdam will follow on 17 October.
–
–
