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we've never had this many people before. it's coming for me. i feel like donkey hotel fighting windmills and places where i cook. alexandra exxon's, a line looks after people living on the margins of society. yep. i hear a lot of people say they feel bothered by the side of beckers. so how is that possible and that's fine. but what bothers me is that we allow this people sleeping outside and sub 0 temperatures and carports. alexandra has joined the fight against luck. some birds knew poverty. and for people like sailors who can't find an affordable place to live. interesting. so i'm angry with the government because they don't do anything. she's ok, so i fee. they do a lot of talking to people like spending 210000000 on new apartments button. where are they? what is the
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good, the luxembourg, a financial hub and home to accomplish shel companies along with the european court of justice in the grand duchy. every one in 15 residence is a millionaire. in the shadows of the fancy stores and office buildings lies the home of stefan and fit in pretty good. alexandra met the 2 hun, gary and man on the street and is determined to help them step on and fit and live under a bridge together with their dogs, chilly and pity. they've been here for 7 years now. temperatures are expected to
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drop to minus 7 tonight, but that doesn't seem to bother them much. because i have a lamp with the power back on oh, yeah, yeah. when do you for reading at night you knocked leaves and they say luxembourg treats homeless residence. well, given you a guess, when you get the health insurance card of these, i guess what types of cards i can use it to go to the dentist can pro blame and to other doctors tune that are no problem under and you don't pay for anything. costello's feelings tells us how he lost his teeth from years of drug abuse and that he was given these dentures. free of charge here. yeah. that that in hungary this is unthinkable. i, missouri, think of the issue. i got
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a full lead. i don't care where i live, whether hungary or here here is better said become i have no family familiar hungry is racist with crazy politicians politic are crazy or automatic. they're autobahn is a horrible man. you're the best said he, there's no racism or aggression here. ok. there's good money here. he had a good, a good that good. good. the and good charities. cute it's haven't. it is it must have been in german then to be high. so don't you haven't haven't seen him of a few minutes? yeah. alexandra has spent the past 25 years looking after homeless people like stefan and fans noise. that's one of the hoses. homelessness is still visible. now self noise is what's also new. are the tensions with roma,
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the organized speaking the but the law. oh, we never had that before. it does have to be in the months my life become michelle unable, 1st of all, sometimes get a call from a shop owner of the of the asking me to come over and take in a homeless person near their business advised us. and the function code does the suddenly, i mean, they say as it hurts our image and image and it puts off customers. hollins is finished in the stuff kind for comments about come that's come, that's unbelievable. it sounds like they're saying come and clean up our streets comp puts or sticks to austin's old body shop. if my bill feels like people are trying to sweep the issue under the ground for a 2nd, last to alexandra runs a charity association called stem fund. us through us or voice of the street. charlotte sequester took of
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a it's an extremely high pressure job. twice outside, dozens of people in need are waiting for hot meals in the office. alexandra and her colleagues have to organize everything for the end of year party in 2 weeks time with hundreds of homeless people. and the guest of honor has just confirmed he'll be coming to the head of stage, grand duke, all the of luxembourg. it's noon and a growing stream of people arrive at alexandra soup kitchen from the area around the railway station. most of the people in need have a migrant background, but they're also joined by long time lux and burgers. a retired nurse my side. i bet he is extremely worried about rising prices in the country and city most really even if you have a decent tension, it's getting harder and harder to lose year. yeah, i would say everything's really expensive. after even close the side,
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the aisle is everything. oh, yeah, this is why alexander feels compelled to set up a clothing outlet one floor up. so this is everything offrey declines. i did, we get our clothes from collections that we do regularly. i'm kind of to comment on . we also created this workshop to provide jobs. oh lord, it's a push i have to get alexander's team is helping josie. rodriguez find a sweater pants and a cab? yes, it is under last summer. she'll say left his home country of portugal to come here with big hopes to see me, but i want it to work here, but there are hardly any jobs, something for what kind of work do you want happening for construction so, but there's nothing to do right now no, i don't know shes, he knows he'd be doing far worse if it weren't for voice of the street. he can't
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afford an apartment and is currently sleeping in a shelter located above a center for drug addiction. m a e commerce, uh in luxembourg is a rich country is, but that doesn't guarantee you weren't going to buy your go. things are going downhill with the construction sector. so, and if you don't have an address like me, but then you get practically 0 help from the state. no, no, and those are the worst case. all go back to portugal. when the construction industry was booming, here people actually say we're in big demand now like many others, he's falling through the cracks. poverty and luxembourg is becoming increasingly visible. at the same time, the country tops the european g. d. p rankings in 2020 to look some burgers earned an average of 119230 years. in germany,
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the figure was 46150, and in france, 38590 euros. the young lords is a painter and decorator in a similar situation too. shows a he's out of work to qualify for welfare. presidents have to be $25.00 piece $22.00 wellness time. give solve this. getting difficult to find anything these days. there are more and more foreigners coming in line comb, a job and they get everything blown up there. so i can look some movies in luxembourg. those are left to get by on their own work. done the platform. let me live and fuck, there are a lot of french people coming over to work because they don't earn as much back home to few 15 in the game don't. then they get jobs in places less than burgers. don't stand a chance. initials. now we're basically left out in the cold and they get to have
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a nice light is close to the i'm in the home the i'm not quite sleep. so besides look sorry, they take care of the foreigners, but not us. you know, and that's why i say lots and burgers have been left high and dry and we can look as much as we want, but we won't find anything to do. next. no. janik is angry about increasing competition on the job market. just going to present just again, i'm the kind of person who likes working often. i don't want to live off the states often. so if i'm offered a job as a heating technician or a tyler and then i'll do it. i truly go dogs, please leave on the aisle even if i don't have any experience as long as you can pay me on some of those goods you on it isn't the only one who feels this way. many people on the street fuel disadvantaged by switch to being threatened the time the government had their eyes opened and provided full housing benefits on the escape
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guns to the immigrant. you have all these immigrants being welcomed with open arms, and you don't have to be perfectly honest. our government doesn't give a damn about locks. and burners union is i'm sad emotional, but they don't really do anything for us doing stuff they're doing since becoming unemployed. younique's like the to hon, gary and stuff on and fans has been making his way to alexandra soup kitchen every lunch time where he can get a hot meal for 50 cents. and one floor up in the same building. voice of the streets, very young newspaper team are working on their next edition. another little enterprise design to give people like search coupler, a path back to work. almost like it was good at 1st i go, i don't have to call them i suppose to start writing articles, sometimes you look good. so funny, i got down to it and started writing down cuz at 1st at home and by hand what to
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give another. so the editor was really impressed with a lot of the stuff and then they set me down at the computer over there. and i started writing should the street paper covers a range of issues from conservative politicians, demanding a ban on begging to renewable energy. sash himself mainly writes about the housing shortage with tips from editor in chief, so to speak, brown. while that some of this, this is latisha piece on it's a nice that traditional media don't cover in products and engineering is kind of, we're in touch with people and the problems in which we learned about 1st time and hopefully in the soon the 6 on the stuff that we reports and the language, the same people understand what their priorities in mind. you know there's question on within that source trends itself. this we are the voice of the street. isn't that the shipment of costs sales and his colleague mary, len. fudge are both welfare recipients. they know from personal experience,
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what it means to be the 4 and the grand duchy of luxembourg. this beloved stitch shown it is tough when you don't have any money, but you can call people who do have money, can afford everything they want to spend money. but if you don't, it's difficult to get by really given even by thoughts cool, the own to this scapes of an. it's not as if there's one group with everyone sticking together, like no forget so, so you have to read and the poor. and there's a big divide, the spice of books to distribute the street newspaper to subscribers here in the wealthy old town area of luxembourg city like the ministry of culture stem from the us plus with the newspapers from salvage. and mary lens perspective,
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there's something rotten behind the sleek facade. they want the government to take action against the rising hardship. in 202219.4 percent of the population face poverty or social exclusion. the sounds believes the most pressing issue is the housing market crisis. he himself has chronic inflammatory back pain and is no longer fully fit to work. and he is also suffering from the aftermath of a sales marriage. enough to shy do i was married for 16 years, destiny of i. and when we got divorce and just cuz she, i had to leave our apartment to help this to you kind of what the law here says that the husband has to go. because he's still out because that's the funk of the among liskey. because he is someone who lives on social benefits known as
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a ready and luxembourg. it's been difficult for him to find an apartment a month on testers, place the conversation started out really relaxed as clicking i thought when i said where i worked and what i earned and not technically the mood suddenly change the disease. and then the guy said, no need these because rabies are considered anti social or too lazy to work, isn't to follow. and so all that and drugs, you know, at the same time, so i was just neighborhood, has become increasingly health and increasingly expensive. the federal can here, they wants to turn this into a luxury neighborhood. there are apartments being built where you'll soon be paying 800000 euros for 35 square meter to him flat. so too often to the house, but it's far too expensive. here to tell you this tiny room is sounds as home manjeet. as you can see, it's pretty humble the that there is what i survive on. the microwave that to me go over to his 18 year old son,
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sleeps on the couch across the room. and this shared single room apartment doesn't come cheap. this was he is living with a bunch of design paying $770.00 euro is for 20 square meters. certainly i don't even have a kitchen because it's a good thing. i get along with my ex i would 50 so i can cook at her sometimes. otherwise you'll get it just be bachelor's meals. the microwave there can to it as of time because i don't know if it was interesting. so if you my mad at the government's because they don't do anything these, they do a lot of talking like spending 210000000 on new apartments, one level. but where are they this here. here's the, the other, there's so many vague and places and so there's dancer, he's been able to,
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i've registered for apartments all over the place, has been nothing happens, p back in the private market is out of the question, does this my dish for alexandra, the housing shortage is an explosive issue that could divide luxembourg society even more, but she's determined to do something about it for years. so see all in just have been comparing it to a ticking time bomb. a situation that politicians have been ignoring for far too long. says antoine paku, an expert on the housing market in luxembourg. he says the main problem is an extreme concentration of land ownership and related real estate speculation, price of land and the price of flats over time. see if i can not, this is almost a isn't offline for housing sitting here behind, acceptance owned by a small portion of the population on. that's great. on the truth. our studies show
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that 0.5 percent of luck, some burgers on 50 percent of the building land. also to get off the hosting ultimate leave are about 3000 wealthy families who have inherited these extremely valuable properties that are also called april 5th. i'm, you know, they have no interest in building housing fix. yeah. yeah, i'm on that off. i me a said objective to classical piece. you mentioned the dynamic economic development means printer properties will increase in value by 5 or 10 percent a year anyway. of all deciding c set deep all over the last 8 years. property prices have sort by 74 percent and rents by 41 percent. recently the government has started to build affordable social housing. it's a policy change that's comes far too late, says antoine pet cool. so at the moment, the luxembourg,
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only 2 percent of the housing in the country is affordable housing. so this, this is extremely low for, for standards of europe, especially for neighboring countries. who have, you know, been investing in this kind of housing for the last 100 years. luxemburg is starting extremely late and from an extremely low level. so ideally, we should get this sector up to 152025 percent. he wants to see people like sash janik, angels, a spirit, the consequences of outdated policy. patrick claim on can also speak from experience. he spent 5 years on the streets and apartment was the luxury he couldn't afford. but patrick got lucky. he pays a relatively modest $580.00 euros a month for an apartment, including a kitchen, bathroom and basement. a subsidized flat, provided by alexandra is organization. kept me
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guessing trustworthy. i couldn't cope with the situation. i was in at the time and got involved with drugs and others. but luckily i got help from alexandra and stem fun dish to us. and of course, they said you're not an idiot. ok. and it's not too late to make something of your life comes. that's my last i'm named vendor yet otherwise you'll never get out of this vicious cycle. if it's quiet, these metals. patrick's hard to began when his ex girlfriend died in a tragic accident. this was followed by alcohol, cocaine, and heroin abuse. is 5 single mom. i was an addict, especially to what you might not notice now is that i was deep into drugs to because of my ex is death shop to see a few that you have to even do most of this process. i went through a lot of things on the street. start, give some info and then there was this place you could go and you were told just you're in good hands. it comes with you and there's someone who will listen to you
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. i'm yet. patrick's been clean for 14 years and now spends his afternoons working for voice of the street 20 without them i'd still be on the street or rather i wouldn't be here and i'm grateful for their help difficulties. the voice of the street also runs this laundry and has a working arrangements with a major supermarket chain. again, we pick up fruits and vegetables, everything and bring it here. and once we've checked it, we distributed among various groups of toner. every day, michelle con. righty drives to the biggest supermarket in luxembourg. it's located in the wealthy business district of the capital's kiln. each bank area he collects food right before it expires with the help of volunteers.
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mendoza. i'm retired and used to be in charge of environmental issues at the store . they don't care about sustainability and social issues. we can't allow food to end up in the trash. it's better to donate it to people in the sun, you know as well the, the people when i was a manager here, i always told alexandra that when i retired, i'd help out at the volunteer the big one. or if i miss you all guys, that's how i ended up inch. demons on this task. you guys didn't put us both. they need volunteers as to what you get to look through. and this is my way of making
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a small contribution for what i meant to ask you to please spell. they put the trouble cut off the food recycling system, which insures the coal chain is maintained was introduced by de luca. your voice of the street is largely funded by tax payers, but donations are also important. a group of managers from the big retail company has just arrived for a visit. i need you to focus people. okay. and let's go. that's good. these visitors have donated a vacuum ceiling machine and i was thinking about becoming more involved. i don't think i've got the 14 tons of food i'm on the phone can. that's not bad. it's
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14 tons that don't get thrown away and get used in our soup kitchens. they make 800 meals a day across the country. they'll say this to all. the kitchens are stuffed by people who used to be unemployed. a lot of them are refugees, like how soon do the me and get up to use those guys from the dice sites. i'm headed up to 2015, but i'm the director of the water. can some companies here? they learn the skills that will prepare them for the local job market. one story above alexandra is reading some disturbing news.
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the mission will never succeed with that. and they tried it last time. i had no way a 9 to become dusty still's. the government has passed a band on begging to beat that and been disabled. and if it's banned, empty, lots of people will be forced into a life of crime that hopefully will just fail if there's a shifting the problem somewhere else. the pin, the what else would i didn't do, but we'll still see the people either at gas stations or in supermarkets. but what they're really saying is, we don't want poor people in the old town where the rich people are used to high school or to of higher than me for i feel like don quixote fighting when mills comes. i've gotten used to this over the last 25 years. yeah. but we've never had this many people before. what size is a sophie? we need funding to be able to function with the comments on by the color the next
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day. alexandra has a couple of very high profile visitors arriving for the voice at the streets end of year celebration. the grand duke and his wife. c the head of state face to face with people who are unemployed, living in poverty and with addiction. for alexandra, it's the most important and symbolic moment of the year. 400 people in need have gathered here more than any previous year. d g and other volunteers are on hand to serve the food and drinks for the sick. i will not be assessed, it cannot be passed. so then i'm for me personally, when we don't pay these people enough attention, you will know and don't talk about them enough. yeah, sure. we have a lot of volunteers,
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but there aren't enough people. we need to do more more. the grand duke of the takes a seat at the 1st table right across from janik the he's eager to tell the monarch about things from his perspective. property prizes used to be lower and now they just keep on going up. yes, i suppose the housing market is a huge problem. y'all's the end of the corners get more than luck, some burgers. i don't think that's right. and i told them that i also said, i hope things change here is obviously just because it can go on like this people, the unit is angry or at immigrants, then the government even though it's the government that hasn't done anything about
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the whitening gulf between the rich and the poor the minister of social security is also one of the guests. what does she have to say about the housing shortage? yeah, that is, that's the economics. it's economic under the law of supply and demand the amount it doesn't always work out on its own. so you need initiatives to regulate the market. so they have, they've been successful. not yet. alexandra says that imposing a band on bagging is fighting the por, instead of fighting poverty. here in the wealthiest country in europe, the police said guns to the almost the guns, but of course, luxembourg can't eliminate poverty around the world. i know that, but i'm not a politician. besides, i try to help people who are in a bad place and you know, and if we look some burgers aren't able to help people who are suffering to them,
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