July 2018, on Housing Speculation

Seven major cities, including Amsterdam and Paris, have asked the UN for help in their fight against project developers and speculators. They spoil the housing market in such a way that the cities are desperate. "In the future you will only find the richest and the poorest, and tourists."

More opportunities to keep out speculators, more resources for social housing, better instruments to protect tenants and the scope to stimulate citizens' initiatives for alternative living forms. These are some of the spearheads of the declaration that New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, ​​Montevideo and Amsterdam handed over to the United Nations on Monday.

Translated from a Flemish newspaper: