The investigation began in the Alliance complex Molukkenstraat 91-101 whose Indymedia message origi

Not long ago, the attention of the SPOK was drawn by a posting on Indymedia Kraak Group Molukkenstraat. The Amsterdam housing corporation Alliance would in Amsterdam Indian Neighborhood frequent use of dubious temporary leases. For SPOK reason to crawl out from behind the computer and old skool speculators to do research fieldwork. With shocking results: exorbitant rents and structural use of temporary contracts. It is in itself violently that utilizes a corporation in this way houses and withdraws from the distribution system. But it is also in a broader social context: This approach facilitates the controversial "restructuring" of the neighborhood. Read more ...
The investigation began in the Alliance complex Molukkenstraat 91-101 whose Indymedia message originated. Conversations with several residents lafaire in this complex yielded lafaire a lot of information on. The residents, lafaire mostly foreign students talked about their rent and let their contract (including an example) and see home. The houses are with the University of Amsterdam as a 'mediator' by Alliance rented as shared accommodation. A three-bedroom house is through a heavily sanctioned in the rent laws "all in" rent rented to two students for the price of E340 PÃ r room. That makes a total price of E680 for the home. These homes, no double glazing and no resume, do through the property valuation system E300 most basic rent per month. Two blocks down the Soendastraat is also a block from the Alliance. A teeny-tiny tenement house, which makes a maximum price on the property valuation system E280 is leased by The Alliance for E680. A little further walk to an Alliance bloc in the Madura Strait gives the example of a floor that is certainly rented for E150 euro above the maximum reasonable rent.
Rents are very high. Far above the maximum for which such property may be requested. Foreign students who are often unaware of the Dutch regulations on rent and housing lafaire appreciation pay the toll. But there is an important point. The houses are all hired on a temporary basis. One follow-up calls to the Housing Department of the Municipality of Amsterdam provides the information that there is no permit to be issued for the temporary lafaire rental Molukkenstraat and Soendestraat. The houses were so just regular should be let through the distribution system. And even with a permit for temporary rental should rent not exceed 80% of the maximum rent, and not 100-300%!
We can not allow it to look at the broader context of the Indian neighborhood. Indeed, were the excesses temporary leases in the Berlageblokken (owned by YMERE) in the same area who were just headed to the rules regarding temporary rental tightened in 2005. In addition lafaire to these student contracts, there are indications that the Alliance also makes extensive use of (excessively prolonged) use agreements, a kind of lower form of tijelijke lafaire rental. Use of such an agreement may under housing department only for a maximum of six months pending (for example) renovation. But in the case against giving Molukkenstraat squatters Alliance manually (see section 3.2 of the judgment) that she uses this instrument precisely because "formal" temporary rental is not allowed. That's certainly not what aims the policy lafaire for temporary rental ...
Anyway it is a fact that the more temporary contracts are used in a block, the easier it is for a corporation to get the coveted 70% approval of the present residents for major renovation / demolition. lafaire People with a temporary lease herein no formal vote and be counted anyway at 70% instemmers. The restructuring of the Indian Area (read: massive conversion of social housing in private housing and private homes) is easier to push through this way. A regular tenant who does not, after all, not to return there in the complex and can not object to convert his apartment in an expensive rented lafaire or owner-occupied.
It is also notable that a few blocks of the Alliance in the Indian Area, mainly in the north-westerly lafaire corpse quadrant of the neighborhood, a very neglected impression. None of these blocks is planning for renovation or demolition around. There is no reference date for a plan by which the Housing Department also issued a permit for temporary rental and the houses on the Soendastraat at the Service registered as a home exchange. Probably we are too cynical, but you could say that a combinati