woensdag 17 oktober 2018

Sign

An image in the Municipal Museum in Amsterdam at an exhibition about the sixties.
 In the 1960s there was a great demand for housing supply but there were few properties on offer. The problem was getting bigger and an alternative movement set up the "Kraker" (the Cracker)" in Amsterdam. They cracked illegal into empty houses.The movement spread out all over the country and  the owners were not happy with it and tried to get them out of  their empty houses by lawsuits. In 1971 a group of  Squatters went to the High Court which decided that once settled squatters had a right of residence. Only a table, a chair and a bed seemed sufficent to prevent an expulsion.Later some other conditions followed to the cracking of a house.
The image says: 
"Homeoffice the Cracker ( do it more often)
Save a property , occupy a property"
Linking to signs, signs2"

10 opmerkingen:

  1. Interesting! Squatter's rights have always confused me Marianne, just doesn't seem right somehow ✨

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  2. I agree with Grace, it doesn't seem right to take someone else's property even if empty. Maybe empty properties could be rented to the Government and then they could put people that needed accommodation in there.

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  3. Interesting, I never knew about Squatter rights.

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  4. I would like know more about housing and even some photos of people home.
    Coffee is on

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  5. My shot is a municipal gallery next to a municipal museum.

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  6. It doesn't seem right, but then again, if an otherwise empty building is occupied it may not become derelict quite so quickly.

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