Just dont know what to david call me. Apartments are hard to come by offers are rare and mostly unaffordable. You would quote after all you need to be rich if you want to get an apartment here every year. About 1000000 residents have to share this limited living space and more and more are having to move out to great concrete blocks on the citys outskirts i know that i will have to live under a bridge for a week or in vandal part on a bench. The housing crisis is spreading across europe. Windy by nose answered him East District like the back of her hand shes lived here for 20. Years 1st as a student on a houseboat and then with her husband and children but now shes getting a divorce and she and her 2 sons need a new home. Cook a bit house. Iraq bring this house here for 1500000 euros to help her out its very big 300 square metres. Way too big for me. Wendy has a well paid job and will soon also be receiving support from her exhusband in theory shes well situated for the Housing Market is empty. It was huge its a great i dont know the price for this one yes im afraid it will be unaffordable to its all from my over that by then but it is pretty small more even has a little garden after. All to see its also if i see something while im Walking Around i immediately thought its its but most of the time its already been rented out or its way too expensive on the base otherwise i would have found something long ago all the. Wendy is hoping word of mouth will help her find a new place for now a friend has some letting their apartment to her while they work abroad but not for much longer. Got back you know you know my boys were born and raised here or court so now they go to school here to. It for yourself i am very happy. Its one of the most beautiful areas in amsterdam to go. About and if you look at men all minds to show my social contacts well most of them live here dr because im here in the beauty and thats why id like to stay here too. But the thought of making a. Temporary sublease agreements are commonplace the housing crisis turns entire lives upside down. Money is 1. 00 victim hes a reluctant commuter the student lives in some dump one of amsterdam suburbs every day he bikes to his university for an hour then takes a ferry rain or shine he has no choice. To give all that goes ive always felt this pull towards amsterdam i was born there and went to Elementary School there and after that we moved away when youre from think you know but the mentality there of it the way of life and all the things you can do there you know its so different and much more open to. His childhood home is close to his heart the only thing is most people from amsterdam cant afford to live in their own city. Doesnt really feel frustrated and its so frustrating that i need to take the ferry every day and im always at least an hour away from my friends on top of that i still live with my mother so hes over by a mortar store. More than half the students in the netherlands still live with their parents did moment been right now im looking for an apartment that i can share with friends that we could split the rent with of your goodness he doesnt have to be big and it doesnt even have to be pretty just as long as its here in the city somewhere the money. In on saddam is. The university of amsterdam is bursting at it seems right now more than 100000 students are enrolled in the universities heavily compete for International Students their tuition fees bring in more money but theres no place for the students to live and the stress of looking for an apartment keeps them from their studies. I know that ive had to live under a bridge for a week or involved dont park on a bench he just kept his luggage in a storage and then. Yeah for a lot it was there come a video is there and camping said. Prices are ridiculously high that its if you go you have to pay at least 6. 00 or 700. 00 euros for just a simple room. Home and on a simple. Measures has been looking for 10 months he spends one or 2 hours each day he even pays 20 euros a month for a professional site to send him listings it helps him avoid scams he says. And for the Housing Market is pretty lucrative and that attracts criminals so fucking in the sense that they create a web page where they pretend to offer apartments that dont even exist motivator but if i dont know that and i register on their page for a fee im being cheated in a bit they from the every 2nd website is a criminal website website. And speculation is making matters even worse everyone names 3 reasons for the housing crisis the 1st amsterdam is a tourist magnet with nearly 17000000 overnight stays every year and the numbers are rising. Tourists love the picturesque scenery and the relaxed atmosphere many owners prefer to rent to tourists and limiting accommodation for locals and hotels pay her rent a sums for Building Sites even the universities are turning over a profit with prime real estate. The 2nd cause brechts it many british firms have been moving to the netherlands and buying housing for their employees in bulk sometimes they privatized entire blocks. Last. Investors like prince bandar jr are the 3rd reason the cousin of the dutch king is a real estate millionaire he owns more than 100. Just digits buildings in top locations the only ones who could pay such a high rent are rich men to gers and celebrities from abroad and they do. To them money is hardly an issue. This houseboat is for sale for 1500000 euros as a Vacation Getaway now it just needs a quick polish. Off. About how the 1st remedy. I have to level for because. We had all been from. This morning so that the kind of people who stay for several clients did in europe and thats true for absolute evidence lest we have it all. In europe accommodation is the highest expenditure in 11 European Countries the price per square meter in urban areas rose so sharply in the past year it has become virtually an affordable for the middle class. In amsterdam one square meter costs about 21. 00 euro london is in 1st place with 30 euros per square meter and in paris the most densely populated city in europe one square meter costs 25. 00 euros. In rome and vienna pay an average of 14 year olds which makes madrid and berlin look comparatively inexpensive and just 11 euro has. A place to call home in amsterdam thats what maze copeman would like best hes viewing a place far from the city center in a suburb with good public transportation. And me and. Im hoping to find a place here with 2 or 3 bedrooms are. Made of africa im not sure i dont come here very often but i want to have a look. For all. Im hoping my chances will be higher here on some since the area isnt very popular here. Come here come in. The last week the washing machine in the hallways Communal Property all the furniture you see here is brand new oh its just a mess. Oh and the kitchen and bathroom money went and used. That. 65 square meters on 2 floors all for an incredible 2600. 00 euros at least mais got to come and have a look around most of the time hes not even invited to a viewing. In the mall is the problem in that i throw a fit though usually not the fact that im a student is a problem and for the 11 or to prefer families people who earn money. Unfortunately students have a Bad Reputation for not handling their money well. Overnight and for disturbing the neighbors on the group before broke. But even if they split the costs maize and his friends would still be paying 870. 00 euro each thats way too much. Now that is self so why in the apartment look nice but considering the neighborhood and how expensive the rent is on the ballot and that wed be crazy to take a guy. Here. For now hes better off staying with his family there he contributes 200 euros for living costs. Im happy that hes still living here but i know that hes really preoccupied with the thought of moving out and i get it hes 20 years old he wants to do his own thing. But his circumstances are different than they were for her generation today living on your own in amsterdam is a luxury. More and more young people are choosing not to study. Not only has the island able to but because they dont want to check out Housing Loans sky high rents astronomical real estate prices and growing cities the Housing Market is going crazy and mrs chances of ever moving out are shrinking. As a result the suburbs have become boom towns in amsterdam southEast District many people from suriname have come to settle they are the ones who keep the city running as nurses as taxi and bus drivers and his hairdressers but the city has no affordable space for them. C to. Remain siemens has lived in amsterdam for 48 years now 67 he was able to find an inexpensive apartment to rooms a kitchen and bathroom about me and even nice neighbors. To look lets what i used to look like that was on a trip with the church but. Ever since his son moved out hes been offering people in need somewhere to stay. Here much of it to see and so on we all help each other out. And if you dont have a place to stay you will always be offered a bed and then i made sure to hold on to that mindset anyone with a problem can come to me you. Grow. Ive had a woman from africa stay here. Then 2 men from. A man from the caribbean and now another one here from sara knob. Stephen bang a foe is currently living with him. After suffering a stroke the 58 year old lost his job and couldnt pay the rent. And Aid Organization block the 2 men together. For now theyre sharing the apartment until steven can find a place of his own hes been on the waiting list for subsidized housing for 7 years. In the netherlands offers the most subsidized housing in all of europe it makes up 30 percent of the market austria is proud of the 24 percent of subsidized housing it puts it in 2nd place in most other European Countries its much lower. In germany its only 4 percent and in portugal only 2. All stephen can do is wait and hope. My only other option is to stay in a homeless shelter but youd have to have a screw loose to be able to stand at that and i got. Here and he pays 250 euros for his room and can use the washing machine bathroom and kitchen. Stephen never comes dont know if he has 2 left hands but he never uses the kitchen it by me only one who ever cooks 8 i will look for. Him. And. Usually i get sometimes we want. What would you put into we dont have to become friends. When he finds a place of his own and moves out i still keep thinking about him. Where does he go how is he doing in one of our arrangement is ive helped him and one day hell even p. S. You know when i run into someone in the streets that i help before were happy to see each other and ask how the other is doing sometimes i get a pack of cigarettes as a thank you but if you could argue that it. Home listeners if only temporary has always been an issue in amsterdam but never like this in the past 10 years the number of Homeless People has shot up by 24 percent. Unemployment divorce or illness can force anyone out of their homes even actions cancelled lease agreements it happens quicker than you think. The Rainbow Group is an Aid Organization in amsterdam each week about 30 people at risk of having to sleep on the streets come here for help. Workers can find them a room they can legally rent on short notice but there is a very high demand. On the letter and it could literally happen to anyone in all it takes is one bad turn of luck too many and that makes you lose your home and you cannot find any place quickly have ads but it doesnt matter where youre from or how long you have if the. That insecurity that it could happen to anyone is what makes wendy anxious more anxious than shed like to admit. Shes been hunting for a new place ever since she moved out with her sons that was a year and a half ago every morning she checks for new listings on mine. And i think i could use or do some so i go to this web page and there it says no longer available i could read it on the sat it famously bad im already for that why would they even list it is so frustrating. And i think ill see why do i even bother looking back i mean i. Think i can afford a maximum range of those seem to be 1500. 00 a year i was now a culture problem definitely the problem is the landlords one proves that my salary is full or 5 times higher. That i set and that think all medically thought of fear that size if your teen 100. 00 euros rent times 55. 00 that would mean more than 6000. 00 euros income have to take notice of how brutal thats a lot i dont earn that much and that hail fellow since i was. Already one in 10 households spends more than 40 percent of their income on living costs and because the market is so out of control Property Owners can dictate the rules. Parents with children have particular difficulties. Need hill 5 quite high stimuli ive never moved around much i prefer stability. I cant even imagine having to leave here this this is my spot i like sitting here with my books my books i records everything and all the city. But its neat it might not be my house that. I mean i dont own it. At my house but it is my home i have money i have. If she cant find a place to rent when he is willing to buy a home theres a construction site right around the corner. 500 new apartments on the grounds of a former wharf luxury apartments nothing wendy could afford. For the middle. Apartments like these out of reach for middle class wages so for the often very not we either and too little. Of the its very low or too much divina thats it its not enough to buy or rent. And its too much to be eligible for subsidized housing. And this is a shot of voting i thought is tough to do you know that in between theres hardly anything left for the middle class. In the past 5 years real estate prices in amsterdam have nearly doubled not only in the city center but further out as well theres a lot of interest in this apartment in southern amsterdam another massive viewing. The entry bid is 350000. 00 euros for 68 square meters here homes are sold to the highest bidder. Youre more demands you always have to offer at least 102030000 euros more than the asking price if you want to even stand a chance of course thats an. But thats just the way to. State theres a lot of competition at the viewing so you can sense the pressure from the other potential by is it makes it even harder to make a good everyone is very emotional. At least now has passed on. Property for the purpose of speculating on the market whoever buys a house now must also move into it themselves and stay there for at least 5 years. About 60 percent of the population are homeowners germany on the other hand has the lowest rate of homeowners with just 45 percent in italy and ireland about 70 percent on their own home and in the baltic region its almost 90 percent. Your own can be a good solution even if the place is small. Stein mehrtens wants to turn his lack of assets to his advantage hes moving out of the city to live independently and save costs in his very own tiny home. Hes building his 26 square meter house in. Cologne. I feel like im carrying too much baggage around. I want to reduce my cost of living so that i can devote more time to the things i really care about. So many people in the netherlands and in the rest of the world are so stressed out about paying back their mortgage busy. What if. They buy expensive cars just so they can drive to work. But i think that leads to sacrificing a sense of freedom. It makes people less ready to take risks. His new home costs 36000. 00 europes and thats just the cost of the materials stein is building the tiny home himself its a modular design might lay good for grownups. Aside from being a part time handyman stein is also a music promoter and soon he will also be in coma. For now he still lives in a 75 square meter subsidized apartment in the city. Come in. Hes got 3 times the space here then he will have in his tiny house the rent is 600 europes. Here you can see gems books. And i have a ton of furniture. This here is really special to me before will also for me to follow mobile to this was my mothers desk. She just passed away recently. And she was over maybe i can leave it with my sister so that it can stay in the family. This is something that actually really like to take with me but i cant the house is simply too small for music instead im here some of my instruments it is lets not nearly all of them. So if youre. Barack obama collector ive got all sorts of things that im emotionally attached to sure i got that from my mother. She always said waste not want not but now im tackling my biggest challenge im going to downsize considerably so ill have to get rid of a lot. The less i detail the biggest lesson i can learn from this is to let go of everything i own can also become baggage ball lost sorry. And in the past years hes gathered plenty of baggage his moving boxes are piling up. So hes been checking online ads checking at thrift shops and also places that take donations he enjoys the thought of giving away the things he cant keep in his new home. Collection ive got a Record Collection i love music and i have so many l. P. s you. Even my own. I recorded it with my band and it means a lot to me. For my production the graphics. Everything about a record makes it a special listening experience. 0 but if im being honest how often do i actually listen to a record its nice having them here and sometimes i have a fun evening with friends listening to them. But that only happens maybe twice a year the comes back is it really worth using all the space for that for both. Soon his new home will be in many topia an entire residential park with tiny homes on a former landfill. They named their place mini topia because they knew they were pioneering a new movement here and stein has a small bathroom kitchenette and one big room today. Theres a fair thank you sure itll take some discipline. In the morning i have to fold my bed back up and clear away the bedding i like to sleep in so ill have to remember to put away my bed before going to work or my home will be a mess when i come back. For that hell be getting a roof terrace with a view and a life without debt. All he has to pay is 200. 00 euros a month to lease the plot of land. Theyve been born i spent a long time looking for a place where i could be closer to nature and feel a little freer. Until now ive always had houses right in front of me i could watch the sunrise or see it set. Now look here look at the swans things like that bring tears of joy to my eyes. Wendy is also on the verge of tears. I still have some standards but for how long i wonder. The clock is ticking she has 3 months to find a new home and theres still nothing inside. The facade thats so frustrating it makes me sad and angry sometimes it almost drives me crazy. But i cant let that happen i dont want to let it happen i keep staying positive im still convinced something will turn up. I dont know when or how or where and thats difficult. Figure it for the better life stuff. But i wont let myself be dragged down by that if needs. Met anyone who is looking to rent buy or even build is going to need a lot of time a lot of money and strong nerves and a lot of luck amsterdam is just so popular. To know that 77 percent. Are younger than 65. Thats me and me and. You know what time the voice is. The 77 percent talk about the stuff. From the toilet to flash from housing boom boom top this is where. Welcome to the 77 percent. This weekend g. W. This is deja vu news live from berlin botswanas High Court Strikes down laws against homosexuality the ruling is received with the jubilation in the courtroom it goes against the trend in other parts of Subsaharan Africa were antigay laws have been retained. To cover up also coming out as the International Labor Organization Marks its centenary we look at it after
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