Woonopstand

On December 2, a broad coalition of action groups demonstrated on Dam Square in Amsterdam against the racist and fascist scapegoat policy of Wilders and the PVV, among others. Mustapha spoke on behalf of the Woonopstand action coalition and emphasized in his speech that we must not allow population groups to be played off against each other. Read his speech below.

Today Woonopstand is taking action at the luxury new construction project Bay House in Rotterdam. In the early morning, a banner was attached to the building with the text 'Retake the neighborhoods, expropriate the rich'. Woonopstand exposes the profiteers of the housing crisis: the project developers, investors and large landowners who see housing as a revenue model. Woonopstand demands that only affordable and social housing is being built, an end to the gentrification of our neighborhoods, and expropriation of all private landowners and slumlords so that cities, neighborhoods and housing are returned to the hands of the people who live there.

On October 28, Woonprotest will take action against the housing crisis, the real estate industry, government mismanagement and the ambitionless plans of most political parties. With new, concrete and immediate demands.

The housing movement, climate movement, anti-racism movement and other movements and activist groups are joining forces: in July, the* movement was launched, a new progressive coalition of more than seventy social movements and activist groups. In the run-up to the elections and afterwards, the coalition wants to influence the political agenda for a democratic, social and anti-racist Netherlands.

On Tuesday 18 April, the House of Representatives will vote on the Fixed Lease Contracts bill. There will also be three amendments from the SP and three amendments from the VVD and CDA. While the SP's amendments actually expand the protection of housing security, the VVD and CDA are only trying to erode it further. The Action Coalition Housing Rebellion expresses its horror at this attempt. We demand housing security for everyone and therefore do not accept any deterioration.

We believe that the municipality of Zaanstad should do its utmost to guarantee housing as a right for everyone again. Too often we see that housing is used as a revenue model for slumlords, investors, contractors and others who give more priority to their
own profits than the right to housing.

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.

Action group 'We refuse the rent increase' starts a campaign against the rent increase in Den Bosch during the European Housing Action Week. Following on from previous years, we call on people to refuse the rent increase, which is introduced every year on 1 July. We guide tenants who want to oppose the rent increase by means of a step-by-step plan and support. On April 1, we will start a flyer campaign and go door-to-door to call on residents of Bosschen for this and to inform them. We gather at 14:00 in front of Cafe de Sjang, Graafseweg 141 in Den Bosch and then head into the neighbourhood. We call on everyone to join and participate.

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. 

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.