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8/2 Mayor’s portrait

8/2 Websites for social cohesion

7/2 Spreading tourism proceeds with difficulty

7/2 GroenLinks on districts: Be a man

6/2 Zuideramstel opens new office on Sabbath

5/2 The truth about integration

4/2 Wilders has little support on Amsterdam

3/2 Elite involved in neighbourhood

2/2 Johnnie Walker avoids taxes in Amsterdam

1/2 Rotterdam to tinker with district councils as well

31/1 Wooden rowing boats to disappear from Amstel

31/1 ZeeburgTV launched

27/1 Privacy activists to mess up loyalty card system

27/1 A few were still coughing, but that was an act

27/1 Chrisis in de Baarsjes

26/1 Youth have positive view of districts

24/1 Action groups call for Carmel and Jaffa boycott

24/1 PvdA members dismiss plan for districts

23/1 KLM takes on crisis with new uniform

23/1 District office not squatted

21/1 Merge districts

20/1 Closing squat bar Vrankrijk not necessary

20/1 Cleaners welcome new Schiphol director

18/1 Palestine at the Jewish Historical Museum

18/1 What is the right size for a district?

17/1 PvdA Oost against fewer districts

16/1 Committee: 7 districts by 2010

15/1 Soldiers may attend Afghanistan debate after all

15/1 Bait bike leads to arrest

14/1 Youth for Christ to republish vacancies

13/1 Paintings of the Zuidas

13/1 New Youth for Christ contoversy

11/1 Social cohesion initiative raises eyebrows

10/1 Fewer districts in 2010

10/1 Zuidas: People feel that we are losers

9/1 Fun on the ice - but not for all

9/1 Supermarket coupon fraud thwarted

9/1 I Amsterdam must remain exclusive

8/1 Use term Apartheid in every discussion

8/1 No city kiosk in Amsterdam yet

7/1 Snow

7/1 Fatima Elatik to run Zeeburg

7/1 Municipal managers to return to shop floor

4/1 Police: take photo of strange people

3/1 Gaza protest criticises politicians

1/1 Thousands to protest against attacks on Gaza

1/1 Mustapha Laboui leaves district council

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‘Vote for affordable rent’

1 November 2006 – Last night, Parliament approved the housing market liberalisation proposed by former Minister Sybilla Dekker. Rents will increase more rapidly and the gap between rich and poor neighbourhoods will deepen. Renters’ Association de Pijp calls to vote on a renter friendly party on 22 November.

According to Renters’ Association de Pijp, Parliament approved the plan at about 1.30 am, with 72 MP’s voting for the proposition and 63 against it. Fifteen MP’s had by then left or had been unable to attend. The proposition was supported by CDA, VVD, LPF, SGP and independent MP Gonny van Oudenallen.

Since Minister Dekker had stepped down because of her responsibility for the Schiphol fire, which killed eleven immigrants waiting for deportation, the proposition was defended by her successor, Pieter Winsemius. In today’s Volkskrant, the very same Winsemius expresses his concern about the problems in tens of disadvantaged neighbourhoods. “This is something we should be very nervous about”.

This statement is remarkable, since his new housing market plans will increase segregation. Incidentally, Winsemius also criticizes cuts in the urban renewal fund made by the present government.

Last night, Renters’ Association de Pijp’s Tjerk Dalhuisen issued a call to vote PvdA, GroenLinks, ChristenUnie, D66 or SP in the 22 November elections. “Call on all your friends, acquaintances, family, neighbours etcetera to vote. Now there is a real choice!!”

On Thursday 9 November, the Amsterdam Renters’ Association organises an election debate in de Balie (in Dutch)

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