Pandje gekraakt Jordaan A'dam
Hier kun je discussieren over Pandje gekraakt Jordaan A'dam.
The property we are squatting has been empty for 2 years. Libra International BV, a real estate speculation company, is the owner. This company owns more than a thousand properties in the Netherlands and is well known to operate in the area “between illegal and legal”; they perform house-price raising “property swaps” between their numerous shell corporations; they deliberately render buildings unlivable and leave them empty, degrading, in order to speculate on the land value; they deliberately refrain from their duties as a landlord, withholding their obligated basic maintenance of properties as a means to pressure renters who get in the way of their plans to leave. They render homes into mere sums of money to speculate over, making the city unaffordable, and unlivable for common people.
In this case the company has refrained from basic of maintenance work in the building, deliberately making it difficult to live in for the current renters. At the same time keeps the ground floor empty, maintaining a vacant space in a neighborhood where the housing demand is huge. In this manner the company puts indirect pressure to the renters to force them to leave “of their own choice”, leaving the corporation unimpeded in extracting as much profit out of the land value, with no thought given to the housing needs of ordinary people in Amsterdam.
We use squatting to fight against the gentrification and touristification of our city, by occupying empty buildings which are left to degrade. Squats are laboratories of everyday-life emancipation, creativity, self-education, self-organisation and solidarity.
We live in Amsterdam and we want to create a fair city where housing is granted to everyone, especially to those who are not privileged. A city where land speculation is not allowed. A city that belongs to its residents and not to a few companies who have the right to displace people according to their profit plans.
A city where neighborhood communities can decide for their future and the people whom they want to live around with.
For more information feel free to send us an email at huizennietwinst [at] riseup [dot] net.
Friendly regards,
Your new neighbors in Jordaan
Re: Pandje gekraakt Jordaan A'dam
Ik vraag me wel af waarom deze krakers zich entittled voelen om een pand in de jordaan te kraken en er een statement bij zetten dat het vooral is voor de bewoners van deze stad. Uiteraard ben ik het er mee eens dat huisjesmelkers gebannen moeten worden en dat mensen met een lager inkomen een kans op een fatsoenlijke huizing moeten krijgen maar dit is onneerlijk voor de mensen die in Amsterdam Geboren en Getogen zijn en alles voor de stad over hebben gehad die niet genoeg verdient. Die mensen die altijd belasting hebben betaald hebben geen woning zijn verplicht om met zn 4e op 1e kamer te slapen. Ook ben ik het er mee eens dat als het je niet word uitgereikt je het moet afpakken achter zorgen dit soort maatregelen er wel voor dat makelaars woningen voor expats nog goedkoper gaan maken met meer voordelen zodat ze wel bezet zijn.
Yuck
The entitlement and hypocrisy radiating from their letter is nausiating.
They claim to be doing this for the common people, while countless numbers of low wage workers that have lived in this city for generations are being pushed out by the rising cost of living, the squatters come in from abroad to a city they have no connection with taking up more of the allready scarce space and resources. How ironic they call the city Disneyland Amsterdam but they themselves are here for similar reasons as the hordes of tourists and expats. If they really just want a place to live as part of a community then why do they squat a building in the very centre of Amsterdam instead of moving to one of the many empty houses in places like Drenthe and Zeeland?
It's of course terrible that investors buy up houses and leave them empty just to make a profit, in a city that's in such dire need of affordable housing. it's infuriating. If these squatters were from the Jordaan, I would be celebrating them. But these are foreign squatters with no roots whatsoever in this community taking the space.
They feel so entitled to the resources of the city of Amsterdam , speaking like the representatives of the people, while they haven't even bothered to learn the local language.That's what hypocrisy looks like.