Opinion piece in NRC: ‘Housing is a right, keep calling it that’

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October 16, 2021
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On October 15, 2021, an opinion piece by Rosa Beets (PILP) and Jan de Vries (the Shift) appeared in NRC. In it, they argue that it is time to recognize that the housing crisis is also a human rights violation. Therefore, they say, it is right for the housing movement to put the right to decent housing at the center.

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