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| english translation | mirrors on the moon - 22.06.2009 00:56
There is now an English version of this story available at the same link (under the Dutch article). The first paragraph reads:-
De Alliantie milks the Indische Buurt dry
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How an Amsterdam housing corporation uses temporary renting contracts to its advantage in a traditional Amsterdam neighbourhood.
Not long ago the SPOK's attention was drawn by a posting on Indymedia from the squatting group of the Molukkenstraat. The Amsterdam housing corporation De Alliantie was reported to be making frequent use of dubious temporary renting contracts in the Indische Buurt of Amsterdam.
This was a reason for the SPOK to drag ourselves away from our computers and to head out to do some old-school speculation fieldwork. With shocking results: exorbitantly high rents and structural use of temporary contracts. It is already serious enough that a corporation milks, in this way, the houses dry, and makes them unavailable to the distribution system (through which social renting houses are allocated). But this fits also into a broader social context: such practices facilitate and smoothen
the disputed 'restructuring' of the neighbourhood. Read further!
 http://www.speculanten.nl/node/168
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