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Kick off Housing Action Week 23! Block diagram of actions in the Netherlands

The Housing Action Days 2023: European citizens fight together for the right to housing!

The Housing Action Days 2023: European citizens collectively fight for the right to housing. From March 24 to April 2, 2023, thousands of people in more than 40 cities across Europe will take to the streets for the right to housing and the city to denounce the skyrocketing housing costs. In 2021, the Dutch government signed the Lisbon Declaration, in which 27 European member states have agreed to end homelessness by 2030. Yet homelessness continues to increase, and more and more people live in a temporary, insecure and too expensive way. The government of the Netherlands and the other European member states are doing too little to solve this growing humanitarian crisis.

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BPW The Hague – Flyer action against housing insecurity, vacancy & anti-squatting

BPW The Hague will take to the streets in South West during the International Housing Action Week to hand out flyers against anti-squatting, temporary rental contracts and housing insecurity. Join and fight for housing security! We will start on 29 March at 19:30 atruimzicht and then spread over the Dreven en Gaarden & Bouwlust and Vredelust districts, where a number of clusters of demolition buildings are inhabited by anti-squat and temporary residents. 

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Housing revolt in solidarity with XR in the fight against repression and police brutality!

Coalitie Woonopstand stands in solidarity with Extinction Rebellion in the fight for a just future and disapproves of the harsh intervention of the police and the use of water cannons during the demonstration last Saturday, March 11. 

The housing movement stands behind the peaceful actions of Extinction Rebellion (XR) and their fight for a just future for all living beings on this planet. The climate crisis is inextricably linked to the housing, energy, health and poverty crises, all of which are the result of colonialism and the current racist capitalist system. 

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Tenant action Rochdale! – 30 March 14:00

Last year there was a lot of action against the excessively high rents in the Netherlands. Rents have risen horribly in the last ten years, by an average of 35 percent. More than 800,000 tenants in the Netherlands have such high housing costs that they can no longer afford other necessary living expenses. In protest against this, thousands of people have refused the rent increase over the past year.

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Housing protest Arnhem – 26 March 14:00

After our first protest in October 2021, little has changed in Arnhem. The council that now governs Arnhem has not shown any concrete plans to change the precarious living situation. The city still has many problems in terms of housing. The inconvenient truth is that the problem lies much deeper than we care to admit: capitalism. On March 26 at 14:00 we will demonstrate again on the Grote Markt in Arnhem for a better, more humane and more social housing policy. Come all and let's give the sound together for a more social and radical housing policy.

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Student housing protest Nijmegen! – March 9, 4:00 PM

With a national shortage of 26,500 student homes and the prognosis that this number will double in the next 8 years, there is an extreme housing crisis for students in the Netherlands. There is a huge housing shortage in Nijmegen in particular: The number of students on the waiting list at SSH&, for example, has doubled in one year to 6,000, while the student housing corporation will only increase the supply by about a thousand rooms in their current plans until 2030.

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Announcement Second Housing Protest and march in Amsterdam – February 26

On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 13:00, the Woonprotest is organizing a new protest on Dam Square in Amsterdam. The organization concludes that since the first wave of demonstrations throughout the country, nothing has materially improved in the living situation of millions of Dutch people. She calls for more and tougher action against the ongoing mismanagement. After the demonstration, a 'march against vacancy' follows through the Kalverstraat towards the Amsterdam city hall.

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Call! We are getting ready for the Housing Action Days 2023!

Call taken from the European Action Coalition – Call to action! From March 25 to April 2, 2023, we will take to the streets across Europe for the right to housing and the city, and against the absurdly increased costs of our necessary living. 

Join us too! Organize, mobilize and join #HAD2023 in your city! Various actions are already planned in Amsterdam and Zaanstad, among others. Keep an eye on our website for updates on even more promotions. Are you organizing a local action for which you are looking for support? Register your action with us!

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