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Rotterdam to extend low earner area banThursday 07 January 2010 Rotterdam city council plans to extend its ban on low income families moving into certain parts of the city for a further 18 months at least, the NRC reports on Thursday. 'We are making progress, but the risks for current residents are still too great to allow everyone in,' council executive Hamit Karakus told councillors on Thursday afternoon. The income limit has operated in four problem areas - Carnisse, Tarwewijk, Hillesluis and Oud-Charlois - since 2006. This means people who want to rent a house in one of the four neighbourhoods must either have a job, a pension or student grant. The rule does not apply if people have already lived in the city for six years. Rotterdam is the only city in the country to set income conditions for new residents. Critics say it is a way of controlling the make-up of the population in the city which has a high proportion of low-skilled migrants. Karakus also plans to extend the income limit to a fifth area, Bloemhof, where there is also a 'vulnerable balance' between the employed and jobless, the paper said. Councillors will have to decide on the plan before the March 3 local elections and it must then be approved by housing minister Eberhard van der Laan. © DutchNews.nl
It seems that discrimination is still rampant in my country. Instead of having "income limits" just increase the price of rent in those areas or use some other factor to limit movement of troublemakers to those areas. If this extends to the whole country we will have whole areas of Amsterdam and The Hague ravaged with poverty while other areas lavish with wealth. By Rolf Van Bos | January 8, 2010 10:18 AM Poor is when you can barely find enough food for the day & sending your kid to school is an unaffordable luxury. Many poor in NL. own a car, even some of the unemployed. What's so attractive about living in Rotterdam, the Dutch minority?
By stevie | January 9, 2010 12:56 AM Better call it with its real name: "ghetto for the rich". This is the next step after discrimination. When discrimination is part of the official policy then you could call it "..." Of course you cannot expect something different from someone who started his career as police officer. And the same time you can see what "kind of people" are the politicians of a party that claim it stand for the "working class". He is member of PvdA. Instead of doing something for the thousands of the poor and new-poor they create ghettos to protect their high standard of living. The "progressive liberal" dutch attitude is just a myth and a tale from the past. Congratulation. By Nikos P. | January 9, 2010 2:22 PM
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nice!!! next let's put walls, armed personel..this is what i call CIVILISATION. shame.
By kos | January 8, 2010 8:25 AM