2023 was a year of increasing social inequality, xenophobia, and repression of social movements and minorities in Europe. It has also been a year in which having a roof over your head has become self-evident for fewer and fewer people. That is why we are calling together with the European Action Coalition
12/01/24 – Dear supporters, we hope that this invitation reaches you in good health. In response to the impending rent increases, which are the highest in 30 years, we call on all tenants to unite and participate in our national action meeting on February 3 in Den Bosch.
Message via Woonprotest Utrecht | It has now been almost two years since we demonstrated en masse on the Jaarbeursplein for our right to live. It was the start of Woonprotest Utrecht. The housing shortage has gotten completely out of hand and now politicians finally seem to be waking up a bit. The change
The national action coalition Woonopstand presents its vision document, a blueprint for a radically just approach to the created housing crisis in the Netherlands. The right to decent housing is still being violated on a large scale by the government, as the UN rapporteur also confirmed after his visit to the Netherlands.
On November 18, 2023, Woonopstand took 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 'Recapture the neighborhoods, expropriate the rich'. Woonopstand thus makes visible the profiteers of the housing crisis: project developers, investors and large landowners
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 fight against each other.
