My girlfriend lived in Belgium and is half the reason I moved to the country. The other half was the cost of housing in The Netherlands. I either had to pay 75% of my income on just rent or had to fight with others to get subsidized housing.
The subsidized housing was done on a lottery basis where you had to sign up and then they would randomly select a place in the line for you. Some houses got 3000 applications, I was often placed above rank 300 due to my membership time.
For two and a half year I was looking for an appartment this way. I did not even get an invite to come check for an appartment. In two weeks of being in Belgium, I had 14 visits and found an appartment. And the market is not even that great over here.
It is pure fucking chaos.
The Netherlands is not a real country. It’s a bunch of capitalists in a trench coat.
Jesus that’s terrible. Fkn nightmare housing situation. The housing market just becomes another bank for speculators rather than a place for ppl to live.
The question is - what you (tweet author) and others are going to do about it?
Our party’s plan is to make housing a right, to bring back housing in the hands of the state, implementing quality control of state housing and to offer an enormous state subsidized plan to improve the quality of the homes itself through better isolation, better quality of water, heating, fundamentals etc.
We’re currently planning major protests to make our points clear to the general public, as well as handing out surveys to renters. From there on we will look what we can do next.
Good start. Do you have political leverage?
Steadily climbing in votes, I think around 10% of the population now actively votes for us.
Steadily climbing in number of members as well, last I hear we’re reaching 30k active members (which is a big amount for a party to have over here).
The socialist Union with 1.3 million members said they now support us in our goals, which is massive of course. Together we can mobilize huge numbers of people.
Some of our proposals get accepted by parliament, for example against privitization of healthcare as well as lower the cost of the energy bill.
More importantly, in my eyes, is our unofficial official party work of recruiting people for our cause. I hope every serious marxist out there realizes that we’re not going to vote out capitalism and that more is needed. Playing the part in parliamentary politics to get your word out on the street is good, but it will never achieve a socialist state of course. More needs to happen for that.
Keep up the good fight! My respect cannot be properly expressed
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