Amsterdam’s squatter wars are back – and wealthy Dutch homeowners have only themselves to blame | Senay Boztas
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Those already on the property ladder are fuelling a shameful disparity. Until they wake up, the krakers will keep coming, says journalist Senay Boztas
  • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Especially the issue of housing asylum seekers (“statushouders”) is a big issue in the Netherlands as there is a situation where Dutch taxpayers are in a competition with foreigners whose rents are paid for by the Dutch taxpayers. This is obviously a touchy subject and a treasure trove for the right wing nut jobs.

    I would say that this is a issue for everyone that could think a little.
    And I would add that the problem is not that this can be an treasure trove for the right wing (which probably is) but that everyone else is, mostly, denying the problem even exist.

    • cazzmaniandevil@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Except if you think about it the problem is not that legal immigrants have a right to housing but that our 20 year long right wing neoliberal government has forced social housing developers to compete with for profit developers while hampering them with al sorts of taxes and rules that make it impossible to stay afloat (I’m not even talking profit here as that is prohibited for social housing developers). So forcing market forces in a sector that is not a normal economic market and then giving them extra rules that make it that they cant even compete and survive.

    • jjpamsterdam@feddit.orgEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I fully agree with you. Pretending this issue doesn’t exist is definitely not the way to go. That’s a problem the left has had for years now.