Illegal living

Every big city in the Netherlands has an university and every big city in the Netherlands has this problem: where to put all of those studying youngsters? There are just too many of them. This has led to illegal renting and sky-high renting fees.

I have seen friends of mine living in closet-spaces in Amsterdam, paying 350 euros for a few square meter. With walls as thin as paper because the man they´re renting from diveded the (already very tiny) 4 bedroom-house in a 8 bedroom house. Simply by putting up some gips-walls here and there, doubling his income.

Two organisations who fight for matters like this, revealed the biggest conman (or actually conwoman) in Utrecht, the city where I studied. See article. Mrs. Chang rents out rooms sometimes the size of a mere five meters in houses old and very unsafe.

The need of better and more housing has become so urgent that a few years ago containers were put up in Utrecht to make sure that students had a place to go.

I sure hope that students get more rights and get more easy-to-use, and especially more directly effective weapons to fight off people like mrs. Chang. These people are a real bug to the city and should be treated like other plagues; exterminate!