Protesters marched from the central train station to Place d Armes on Saturday afternoon for access to decent and affordable housing. Jean-Michel Campanella, one of the organisers, shares his thoughts about their demands.
Around a thousand people already marched for affordable housing last October. Jean-Michel Campanella, president of the Mieterschutz tenants defense association, expected no less this Saturday, 27 March, on the European day of action for the right to housing. The Wunnrecht coalition, which brings together several associations, organised a national demonstration for access to decent and affordable housing for the occasion to address a problem directly impacting Luxembourg.
“There are specificities according to the coalition associations in the demands,” Campanella says. “The transversal one is that the state makes an effort to build social housing. We have calculated 3,000 to 4,000 social housing units to be built or renovated. The same