For example, the average sales price of a new-build home in 2022 was almost half a million, and the average rental price of a new-build apartment in the private sector was 1,239 euros! This while the vacancy rate in the top segment of the rental market (>1250 euros per month) rose nationally to 7.6%, and in Rotterdam even to 8.5%. The percentage of newly built social housing, on the other hand, remained at only 16% in the period from 2017 to 2020! The priority of representatives, large landowners and real estate companies is clearly not to eradicate homelessness, but to achieve the highest returns.
So order a stack of 'Recapture the neighborhoods, expropriate the rich' stickers now and take to the streets to tag unaffordable new construction projects in your neighborhood, village or city and help make expropriation a subject of discussion. Together we are committed to getting the much-needed housing stock back into public hands! Take a photo of your sticker and send it to [email protected] or tag us on social media @woonopstand.
Woonopstand demands a radically just housing policy:
- Prioritize ending homelessness and preventing precarious and overpriced housing.
- Invest in widely accessible public housing: build 100% socially and affordable and stop the demolition, sale and liberalization of social housing.
- Expropriate all private landowners and slum landlords: democratize ownership and decision-making about housing and support cooperative housing. Cities, neighborhoods and homes must be in the hands of the people who live there.
- Stop the gentrification policy and treat renting and buying as equal.
- End the financialization of housing and land: housing for people not for profit.
Read the press statement of the banner drop on November 18 here
