Affordable place to live. Interesting. So im angry with the government because they dont do anything. These x, y fi, they do a lot of talking to people like spending 210000000 on new apartments button. Where are they . What is the luxembourg . A Financial Hub and home to accomplish shel companies along with the European Court of justice in the grand duchy. Every one in 15 residents is a millionaire. In the shadows of the fancy stores and Office Buildings lies the home of stefan and fit in pretty good. Alexandra met the 2 hun, gary and man on the street and is determined to help them step on and see it and live under a bridge together with their dogs, chilly and pity. Theyve been here for 7 years now. Temperatures are expected to drop to minus 7 tonight, but that doesnt seem to bother them much. Because i have a lamp with the power back on oh, yeah, yeah. When do you for reading at night you knocked leaves and they say luxembourg treats homeless residence. Well. You been and you get when you get the Health Insurance card visa it gives one type of card i can use it to go to the dentist and i can probably and to other doctors tune that are no problem under it. And you dont pay for anything. Costellos feelings tells us how he lost his teeth from years of drug abuse and that he was given these dentures free of charge here. Yeah. That, that in hungary this is unthinkable. Im. Is there anything else to got a little late . I dont care where i live, whether hungry or here. Here is better. Said you come. I have no family. Familiar hungry is racist with crazy politicians politic are crazy or automatic. Theyre autobahn is a horrible man. Youre the best said he, theres no racism or aggression here. Ok, theres good money here. He had a good, a good that good. Good there. And good charities. Cute its havent. It is it must have been in german then to be high. So dont you havent, havent seen him of a few minutes. Yeah. Alexandra has spent the past 25 years looking after Homeless People like stuff on and fans noise. Thats one of the hoses. The homelessness is still visible now. No, it is. Whats also new are the tensions with roma, the organized paying . The bet law c o. We never had that before. It does have to be in the lunch by the become michelle, unable football sometimes get a call from a shop owner of the of the asking me to come over and take in a homeless person near their business advised us and the spanish board to dust the century i mean they say as it hurts our image and image and it puts off customers. Hollins is finished in the stuff kind for comments about come thats come. Thats unbelievable. It sounds like theyre saying come and clean up our streets. Come put or dish to austins old body shop. If my bill feels like people are trying to sweep the issue, enter the round for a 2nd. Last to look, sandra runs a Charity Association called stem fund. Us through us or voice of the street. Charlotte sequester took as a, its an extremely High Pressure job, and its why yes, outside dozens of people in need are waiting for hot meals in the office. Alexandra and her colleagues have to organize everything for the end of year party in 2 weeks time with hundreds of Homeless People. And the guest of honor has just confirmed hell be coming to the head of stage, grand duke, only of luxembourg. Its noon and a growing stream of people arrive at alexandra soup kitchen from the area around the railway station. Most of the people in need have a migrant background, but theyre also joined by long time lux and burgers, a retired nurse myself. I bet he is extremely worried about rising prices in the country and city mostly at 8, even if you have a decent pension, its getting harder and harder to lose year of the house. Everythings really expensive after even close the cuz i the hours everything. Oh yeah, this is why alexandra felt compelled to set up a clothing outlet. One floor up. This is everything offrey declines. I did, we get our clothes from collections that we do regularly. Im kind of simple comment on we also created this workshop to provide jobs. Oh lord, its a push. Have to get alexanders team is helping josie. Rodriguez find a sweater pants and a cab . Yes, it is under last summer. Just a left his home country of portugal to come here with big hopes to see me. But i got the, i want it to work here, but there are hardly any jobs, something for what kind of work do you want . I put in for construction. So, but theres nothing to do right now. No, i dont know. He knows hed be doing far worse if it werent for voice of the street. He cant afford an apartment and is currently sleeping in a shelter located above a center for drug addiction. M a e commerce, uh, in store for the new luxembourg is a rich countries, but that doesnt guarantee your work divide, you go things are going downhill with the construction sector. So, and if you dont have an address like me, but then you get practically 0 help from the state. No, no, no you the worst case. Ill go back to portugal. When the Construction Industry was booming, here people actually say were in big demand now like many others, hes falling through the cracks. Poverty and luxembourg is becoming increasingly visible. At the same time, the country tops the european g. D p. Rankings. In 2022 looks and burgers earned an average of 119230 years. In germany, the figure was 46150, and in france, 38590 euros. The bionic lords is a painter and decorator in a similar situation too, shows a, hes out of work to qualify for welfare. President s have to be 25 piece 20 to the lowest time to solve this, getting difficult to find anything these days. There are more and more foreigners coming in line and they get everything blown up there, right . Its on the bodies in luxembourg. Those are left to get by on their own work done by the art platform. Let me live. Im fucked. There are a lot of french people coming over to work because they dont earn as much back home if you for the in the game down and they get jobs and places less than burgers dont stand a chance. Initials. Now were basically left out in the cold and they get to have a nice life skills. And then the home doesnt have quite a sleep. So besides look starting uh they take care of the foreigners, but not us. The is, thats why i say lots and burgers have been left high and dry sufferings. We can look as much as we want, but we wont find anything to do next. No janik is angry about increasing competition on the job market. Should be the president. Again, im the kind of person who likes working on. I dont want to live off the stage often. So if im offered a job as a heating technician or a tyler and then ill do it, i truly go dogs please. Even if i dont have any experience as long as you can pay me some of those skills, janik isnt the only one who feels this way. Many people on the street feel disadvantaged by stroke streams right. In the time the government at their eyes opened and provided full housing benefits escape guns to the immigrant. You have all these immigrants being welcomed with open arms and youre going to be perfectly honest. Our government doesnt give a damn about lots of murders or beginning exams, that emotional but they dont really do anything for us. The stuff theyre going since becoming unemployed. Youniques like the to hon. Gary and stuff on. And fans has been making his way to alexandra soup kitchen every lunch time where he can get a hot meal for 0. 50. And one floor up in the same building. The voice of the streets, very own newspaper team or working on their next edition. Another little enterprise designed to give people like search coupler, a path back to work the almost like it was good at 1st ive gotten the ticket. How am i supposed to start writing articles, so to be sure, if it was good, so i got down to it and started writing down cuz at 1st at home and by hand what to do, but not. So the editor was really impressed with a lot of the stuff, and then they sent me down at the computer over there. And i started writing should the street paper covered a range of issues from conservative politicians, demanding a ban on begging to renewable energy. Sash himself mainly writes about the housing shortage with tips from editor in chief fleet ethic, brown. While the assume of this, this is leticia a piece on its a nice that traditional media dont cover in products and engineering is kind of, were in touch with people and the problems with which we learned about 1st time and hopefully soon the 6 as long as the henry reports and the language the same people understand what their priorities in mind. You know what the expression on within thats our strengths. Come up this we are the voice of the street. Isnt that the shipment of coffee sailors and his colleague mary, len . Fudge are both welfare recipients. They know from personal experience, what it means to be the 4 and the grand duchy of luxembourg. This the last, its shown. It is tough when you dont have any money, but you can call people who do have money, can afford everything they want to spend money. But if you dont, its difficult to get by really given even by thoughts cool. The on the bus escapes on, its not as if theres one group with everyone sticking together like no forget so, so you have the room and the poor. And theres a big divide by the top saying the to distribute the street newspaper to subscribers here in the wealthy, old town area of luxembourg, city like the ministry of culture and stem fun as plus with the newspapers from salvage. And maryland perspective, theres something wrong behind the sleek facade. They want the government to take action against the rising hardship. In 202219. 4 percent of the population face poverty or social exclusion. The sounds believes the most pressing issue is the Housing Market crisis. He himself has chronic inflammatory back pain and is no longer fully fit to work. And he is also suffering from the aftermath of a sales marriage. And not this i do. I was married for 16 years, destiny. How far . And when we got divorced on this dispute, i had to leave our apartment hostage to you kind of what the law here says that the husband has to go. Because hes still out because thats the funk of the among liskey. Because he is someone who lives on social benefits known as a ready in luxembourg. Its been difficult for him to find an apartment a month on thats just place the conversation started out really relaxed as clicking. But when i said where i worked and what i earned, and ive talked in the mood, suddenly change is easy. Then the guy said no need of these. Because rabies are considered anti social or too lazy to work. If its a fundamental, oftentimes, you know, at the same time, so just neighborhood has become increasingly have and increasingly expensive. The federal can here, they wants to turn this into a luxury neighborhood. There are apartments being built where youll soon be paying 800000 euros for 35 square meter to him flat to, to, but often to the house. But its far too expensive. Here to tell you this tiny room is sounds as home manjeet. As you can see, its pretty humble that there is what i survive on. The microwave that to me clover his 18 year old son sleeps on the couch across the room. And this shared single room apartment doesnt come cheap. This was he has only been 2 months behind paying 770. 00 euro is for 20 square meters. Certainly i dont even have a kitchen because its a good thing. I get along with my ex i would 50 so i can cook at hers sometimes. Otherwise youll get to just be bachelors meals microwave or cant or some of them because i dont know if it was interesting. So if you my mad at the governments because they dont do anything, these are they do a lot of talking, like spending 210000000 on new apartments, one of them. But where are they of this, you know, heres the, the other, theres so many bacon places. Theres dancer, hes been able to, ive registered for apartments all over the place, but nothing happens to be back in the private market. Is out of the question, does this my dish for alexandra. The housing shortage is an explosive issue that could divide Luxembourg Society even more, but shes determined to do something about it for years. So see all in just have been comparing it to a ticking time bomb. A situation that politicians have been ignoring for far too long. Says antoine paku, an expert on the Housing Market in luxembourg. He says the main problem is an extreme concentration of land ownership. And related real estate speculation, price of land, and the price of flats over time. See if i can knock this is almost a, is an offline for housing sitting here behind acceptance owned by a small portion of the population on. Thats great. On the truth. Our studies show that 0. 5 percent of looks and burgers on 50 percent of the building land. Also to get off the hosting ultimate leave are about 3000 wealthy families who have inherited these extremely valuable properties. I can help you impulse if im, you know, im, they have no interest in building housing creeks. Yeah. And yeah, im on that off. I mean, i said of general, the classical piece. You mentioned the Dynamic Economic Development means Printer Properties will increase in value by 5 or 10 percent a year anyway, long deciding c set deep all over the last 8 years. Property prices have sort by 74 percent and rents by 41 percent. Recently the government has started to build affordable social housing. Its a policy change thats comes far too late. Says antoine pet. Cool. So at the moment the luxembourg, only 2 percent of the housing in the country is affordable housing. So this, this is extremely low for, for standards of europe, especially for neighboring countries. Who have, you know, been investing in this kind of housing for the last 100 years. Luxemburg is starting extremely late and from an extremely low level. So ideally we should get this sector up to 152025 percent. He wants to see people like salvage janik and she has a spare with the consequences of outdated policy. Patrick claim on can also speak from experience. She spent 5 years on the streets, and apartment was the luxury. He couldnt afford what patrick got lucky. He pays a relatively modest 580. 00 euros a month for an apartment, including a kitchen, bathroom and basement. A subsidized flat, provided by alexandra is organization. Kept me guessing trustworthy. I couldnt cope with the situation. I was in at the time and got involved with drugs and others. But luckily i got help from alexandra and stem fun dishwasher. And of course they said youre not an idiot. Ok. And its not too late. To make something up, your life comes. Thats my last im named vendor yet. Otherwise youll never get out of this vicious cycle on twitter twice. These metals. Patricks heart you began when his ex girlfriend died in a tragic accident. This was followed by alcohol, cocaine, and heroin abuse. Is 5 single mom. I was an addict, especially to what you might not notice now is that i was deep into drugs to because of my ex is death shop to see. I feel like you have to even do mental process. I went through a lot of things on the street that give some info and then there was this place you could go and you were told just youre in good hands who comes to the gate and theres someone who will listen to you. Im yet. Patricks been clean for 14 years and now spends his afternoons working for voice at the street. 20 without them. Id still be on the street with a rather i wouldnt be here and im grateful for their help. Difficulties dont. Voice up, the street also runs this laundry and has a working arrangement with a major supermarket, chain of the good. We pick up fruits and vegetables, everything and bring it here. And once weve checked it, we distributed among various groups of toner. Every day. Michelle con. Righty drives to the biggest supermarket in luxembourg. Its located in the wealthy Business District of the capitals carriage bound area to collect food right before it expires with the help of volunteers. Mendoza. Im retired and used to be in charge of Environmental Issues at the store. Dont care about sustainability and social issues as opposed we cant allow food to end up in the trash. Its better to donate it to people in the sun. You know, why dont maybe put this in it when i was a manager here. I always told alexandra that when i retired, id help out as a volunteer one. If i miss your guys, thats how i ended up inch them phone. This task you that simple that they need volunteers as you go through. And this is my way of making a small contribution for what i meant to ask you spell they put the trouble cut off the food recycling system, which insures the coal chain is maintained was introduced by de luca. Your voice of the street is largely funded by tax payers with donations are also important. A group of managers from the big Retail Company has just arrived for a visit. I need to focus people. Okay, and lets go. Thats good for these visitors, have donated a vacuum ceiling machine and im thinking about becoming more involved. I dont think ive got the 14 tulsa food. Im on the phone. Thats not bad. Its 14 tons that dont get thrown away and get used in our soup kitchens. They make 800 meals a day across the country, and theyll say this to all. The kitchens are stuffed by people who used to be unemployed. A lot of them are refugees, like how soon do the me and get out to use those guys from the dice sites. Im headed up to 2015, but im the director of the water. Can some companies here . They learn the skills that will prepare them for the local job market. One story above alexandra is reading some disturbing news and the mission will never succeed with that. And they tried it last time. No way a 9 to become dusty stills. The government has passed a band on begging to beaten that and been disabled. And zip if its banned, empty, lots of people will be forced into a life of crime with difficulty with the sale. If the shifting the problem somewhere else, the pin the what else would i didnt do, but well still see the people either at gas stations or in supermarkets. But what theyre really saying is, we dont want poor people in the old town where the rich people are just you high school or to of. How does that call me for . I feel like dont keep Hotel Fighting windmills comes ive gotten used to this over the last 25 years. Yeah. But weve never had this many people before with type is a sophie. We need funding to be able to function with the comments on like the color the next day, alexandra has a couple of very high profile visitors, arriving for the voice at the streets end of year celebration the the grand duke and his wife the head of state face to face with people who are unemployed, living in poverty and with addiction. For alexandra, its the most important and symbolic moment of the year. 400 people in need have gathered here more than any previous year. D g and other volunteers are on hand to serve the food and drinks for the sick. I will not be assessed, it cannot be passed. So then im for me personally, when we dont pay these people enough attention, you will know and dont talk about them enough. Yeah. For sure. We have a lot of volunteers, but there arent enough people. We need to do more more. The grand duke of the takes a seat at the 1st table right across from janik the hes eager to tell the monarch about things from his perspective. Property prizes used to be lower and now they just keep on going up. Yes, the Housing Market is a huge problem. Yalls, none of the corners get more than luck, some burgers. I dont think thats right. And i told them that i also said, i hope things change here is obviously just because it can go on like this, people or unique is angry or at immigrants. Then the government, even though its the government that hasnt done anything about the whitening gulf between the rich and the poor, the minister of Social Security is also one of the guests. What does she have to say about the housing shortage . Its economic under the law of supply and demand the amount it doesnt always work out on its own. So you need initiatives to regulate the market. So they have, theyve been successful. Not yet. Alexandra says that imposing a band on bagging is fighting the por, instead of fighting poverty. Here in the wealthiest country in europe, the police said guns to the almost the guns, but of course, luxembourg cant eliminate poverty around the world. I know that but im not a politician. Besides, i try to help people who are in a bad place and you know, and if we look some burgers arent able to help people who are suffering to them. Which country can kind of the ego india instant forecast. Updates right to your mobile devices, whether experts like john or turning social media into most Popular Stores for prediction. Theyre faster and more accurate than traditional media. For fishers and farmers, this data is making a big difference. Eco, india. In 30 minutes on the w the. This is the w a news coming july from brooklyn, new York City Police clear students, protesters from the columbia university. 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