on project cassandra in 2016 hours, 3 pod documentary series on mall skiing, has paula stats may, 4th on d, w. those links where me and others who would use it was shown flip side. 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, cool. but 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, but i'm glad to. 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 to that to a fee. they do a lot of talking to me about like spending 210000000 on new apartments button. where are they? what is 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 incidents live under a bridge together with their dogs, chilly and pity. they've been here for 7 years now. temperatures are expected to 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. on the for reading at night, you know, leaves and they say luck. semper treats homeless residence. well, given to you guys, when you get the health insurance card visa it gives one type of card. i can use it

to go to the dentist and i can probably him and 2 other doctors tune that are no problem under the end. 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. so that in hungary this is unthinkable. i'm. is there anything else to issue a got a full lead. i don't care where i live, whether hungry or here. here is better said you come. i have no family. familiar hungry is racist with crazy politicians. what do you think are crazy or automatic? they're autobahn is a horrible man. to the best, said he, there is no racism or aggression here. there's good money here. here's a good, a good that good, good there and good charities. cute it's heaven. as you said, 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. slowly this month of homelessness is so visible. now, i'll know is what's also new or the tensions with roma, 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, on the roof 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 to test the suddenly i know they say as it hurts our image and image and it puts off customers owens this mission in the says kind for comment about come, that's good,

that's i believable. it sounds like they're saying come and clean up our streets. come put stores fixed austin's olva. my bill feels like people are trying to sweep the issue into the ground for a 2nd. i lost it, like sandra runs a charity association called stem fund us through us or voice of the street. charlotte requested took of, it gets an extremely high pressure job, and the toys 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 sort. i bet he is extremely worried about rising prices in the country and city mostly any, even if you have a decent pension, it's getting harder and harder to lose year. yeah, i would say everything's really expensive. after even close the side to hours everything. oh yeah. this is why alexandra felt compelled to set up a clothing outlet. one floor up. this is everything. offrey declines. i did. we get our clothes from collections that we do regularly. i'm kind of a common own. we also created this workshop to provide jobs. oh lord, it's about 5 tickets. alexandra is team is helping josie. rodriguez find a sweater pants and a cab? yes it is under says last summer, just

a left his home country of portugal to come here with big hopes to see me. but i got the, i want it to work here, but there are hardly any jobs. something for me, what kind of work do you want happen for construction so, but there's nothing to do right now. no, i don't know. shes the nose he'd be doing far worse if it weren't for voice of the street. he can't afford an apartment and is currently sleeping in a shelter located above a center for drug addiction. m a e commerce, uh in for the new luxembourg is a rich countries, but that doesn't guarantee you work or divide. you go things are going downhill with the construction sector. and if you don't have an address like me, but then you get practically 0 help from the state. no, no, no, you're 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, the figure was 46150, and in france, 38590 euros the bionic fluids is a painter and decorator in a similar situation to shows a he's out of work to qualify for welfare. presidents have to be 25 piece 22 all the time to solve this, getting difficult to find anything these days. there are more and more foreigners

coming in mind comb a job and they get everything blown up. they're starting to click smokies 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 if you, for the uh, in the game done, then they get jobs and places less than burgers. don't stand a chance. initials, they were basically less out in the cold, and they get to have a nice light is close to the and then the home, the most quiet sleep. so besides what zyden, 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 as well. just again, i'm the kind of person who likes working off. i don't want to live off the stage 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 some of those goods. janik isn't the only one who feels this way. many people on the street fuel disadvantaged by switch to the internet and the time the government at their eyes opened and provided full housing benefits on the escape guns to the amazon. 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 are beginning exams that do marshal, but they don't really do anything for us. the stuff that go into 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 $0.50. and one floor up in the same building, the voice of the streets,

very own newspaper team or working on their next edition. another little enterprise designed to give people like sash cuts out a path back to work almost like it was good. at 1st i've gotten the ticket. how am i supposed to start writing articles? so to be sure, if it was good, so i got down to it and started writing. the balance is at 1st at home and by hand altogether another. so the editor was really impressed with a lot of the stuff, and then they sent 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 it was like brown. while that some of this, this is leticia a piece on it's a nice done to additional media don't cover implants and engineering is kind of, we're in touch with people in the problems which we learned about 1st time.

hopefully in the soon, the 6 as long as the henry reports and the language, the same people understand what their priorities and mind expression on it. and that's our strengths. except as we are, as the voice of the street is in such a shipment of cost sailors and his colleague mary, lend. fudge are both welfare recipients. they know from personal experience what it means to be the hor and the grand duchy of luxembourg. this beloved stitch showing 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 keep in mind. but if you don't, it's difficult to get by with the community. and by that's cool. the on the bus escapes of and it's not as if there's one group with everyone sticking together like no, and includes. like if you have the room and the poor, and there's

a big divide by that 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 this plus with the newspapers from salvage and mary lens perspective, there's something rotten behind the sleek facade. they want the government to take action against the rising hardship in 2022. 19.4 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. i'm not the shy, do i was married for 16 years, destiny off i and when we got divorce and just to shoot, i had to leave our apartment hostage to you kind of what the law here says that the husband has to go. because these 2 adults, because that's the funk of the among liskey, because he is someone who lives on social benefits known as a ready in 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 i've technically, the mood suddenly change is easy and then the guy said no need these. because rabies are considered anti social or too lazy to work, isn't to follow them to all back and talking to them at the same time. so just neighborhood has become increasingly have 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 sandwiches. home, fema, due to as you can see it's pretty humble the that there is what i survive on. the microwave of the me go over to his 18 year old son, sleeps on the couch across the room. and this shares, single room apartment doesn't come cheap. this was he is leaving which ones because i'm 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 exit with 50 so i can cook at her sometimes. otherwise you'll get to just be bachelor's meals microwave or can't or that some of

them because i don't know said it was interesting. so if you my mad at the government's because they don't do anything, they do a lot of talking, but it's like spending 210000000 on new apartments, one level. but where are they of this here? here's the, the other, there's so many vague and places and so there's dancer, he's been able to, i've registered for apartments all over the place, but nothing happens to be 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 knock this is almost a, is an 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 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. the of course we have a pulse if i'm, you know, they have no interest in the building housing fix. yeah, sure. now i'm on that off. i mean, a said objective request through corporate submission to dynamic economic development means printer properties will increase in value by 5 or 10 percent a year anyway. of all the sciences 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 come far too late. says antoine pet. cool. so at the moment the luxembourg, 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. luxembourg 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 salvage janik and she has a spirit, the consequences of outdated policy. patrick

claim on can also speak from experience. she spent 5 years on the streets, and apartment was the luxury. he couldn't afford what 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 organizations. company just 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. it comes as most most i'm named vendor yet. otherwise you'll never get out of this vicious cycle on twitter twice. 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 to come on. i was an advocate presentation which you might not notice now, is that i was deep into drugs to because of my x is death shop. there's a few that you have to even do ment 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 . i'm yet. patrick's been clean for 14 years and now spends his afternoons working for the 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 don't voice up. 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 carriage bound area to collect food right before it expires with the help of volunteers. 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 the, the, it's better to donate it to people in the, near the sun. you know,

this was the so maybe when i was a manager here for this guy, i always told alexandra that when i retired, i'd help out at the volunteer. the big one. if i miss you all guys, that's how i ended up inch. demons on this task as simple as most they need volunteers. and this is my way of making a small contribution. to ask you spell, they put the trouble cuts off the food recycling system, which insures the coal chain is maintained, was introduced by deedee. look on your voice if the street is largely funded by tax payers, a lot of them are refugees, like how soon do the me and get out 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. initially they'll never succeed with that. and they tried it last time, no way to 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 than the, 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 how does that come before? i feel like don quixote finding 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 like the color the next 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 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 that's there, so it's pretty, pretty secure. i want to be since he cannot be packed so then the i'm for me personally, we don't pay these people enough attention. you will not and don't talk about them enough. yeah. for sure we have a lot of volunteers, but there aren't enough people. we need to do more. the grand duke on 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. we'll send them corners, get more than lux inverters. i don't think that's right. and i told him that i also said, i hope things change here is obviously just because it can go on like this. people the janik is angry or at immigrants, then the government even though it's the government that hasn't done anything about 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? it's economic on the board, 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 ban on bagging is biting the poor instead of fighting poverty. here in the wealthiest country in europe, the news they've gone to the elmwood they've done since, 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, which country can some kind of stuff. the germany's email villa t is on a respond clean track. for the 1st time in hand bags,

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