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Wanneer: 13/08/2025 - 14:37

On the 13th August, two buildings in Amsterdam were revealed to have been taken back: 141A Transvaalstraat & Binnen Bantammerstraat 3-1. These buildings are owned by the hypocritical robbers of the people, 'social housing' company Ymere.

We are done facing precariousness, poverty, and exploitation every day while the landlords and social housing companies hold thousands of empty homes and make profit from our misery. We took the matter in our own hands and decided to house ourselves.

Ymere previously listed the house on Binnen Bantammerstraat for sale. Social housing companies gentrify the city by seeling their properties in the center and using the money for buildings on the fringes of Amsterdam. This pushes the working class further and further away from the heart of the city and helps turn the center into a playground for yuppies and tourists. You can find more information about this and actions taken against it at https://niettekoop.org.

We will not wait for anything from this government that leaves its youth homeless while participating in the financing of wars, the genocide in Gaza and continues to pursue colonial policies.

We will not let this state or any state destroy our future any further. We will not accept your fascism or your capitalist system. We have decided to squat, to free our homes from the grip of these social housing companies who pretend to have a social purpose but are really just part of the capitalist machine that drives up housing prices and pushes the poor out of their homes.

From the streets of Amsterdam to Gaza, we will shout: squat everywhere, war nowhere. From our street to Gaza: no justice, no peace.