Action meeting Tenants' Interest South - Amsterdam
16/04/22 – This call has been taken from the website of Tenant interest South.
Rent is too expensive
Enough is enough. Rent has become prohibitively expensive for everyone. It does not matter whether you rent from a large or small commercial landlord or whether you rent from a housing corporation. It also does not matter whether you receive housing benefit or whether you earn just a little too much to qualify. Rent takes up too much of your income. In many households, there is not even enough money left over for a hot meal every day or for the energy bill.
For more than half a century, rents have risen faster than inflation almost every year. In the meantime, wages did not rise. And landlords pretend their noses are bleeding. They refuse to admit that our rents are getting out of hand.
Corporations rejoice that the landlord levy will be abolished. Now they can accelerate with new construction and sustainability. You don't hear them talking about rent freezing, let alone rent reduction. And that while the bill for the landlord levy has been passed on to the tenants all those years for 100%. That money has to go back to the tenants!
Also at commercial landlords, all brakes have been released since Stef Blok, as minister, made more free market forces possible.
Time for action
Enough is enough. We can't take it anymore! We want rents to be frozen in the coming years. To enforce this requirement, we call on everyone to refuse to pay the rent increase. That's okay. It is our legal right. Do you want to participate in the promotion? Would you like to hear how you can exercise your legal right to refuse the rent increase?
Then come to Tetterode, Da Costakade 160 on April 20 at 8 p.m. for an action meeting.
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