I managed to buy a house last year but the market is fucked. But we can’t just buy more with the rate we are polluting nature.

We had the same party leading various coalitions for years and it shows we have been “don’t fix what ain’t broke (yet)” since at least 2010.

My vote will go to the left but the majority of the country leans right so things will not improve soon.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

According to Professor Peter Boelhouwer from Delft University of Technology, several factors have created a “perfect storm”, including the high number of houses needed for people living in the Netherlands.

In Amsterdam, there are around 3,000 so-called economically homeless people who have a job and an ordinary life, but cannot find new accommodation after a change of circumstance — such as a break-up — due to skyrocketing prices on the housing market.

"We try to give them a temporary spot to regain energy, get out of the survival mode of having this stress and constantly thinking: Where am I going to sleep?

How am I going to survive this?," Tamara Kuschel, a project coordinator at De Regenboog told Euronews.

“We try to give them, at least for 12 months, a solid spot to get rest and help them to find to make plans for the future.”

In Amsterdam, renting a flat can be very difficult, but buying it can prove impossible, with asking prices for a 60 square metre house going for as much as €600,000.

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