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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 oaks on the line looks after people living on the margins of society. yep. silver. 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 from quite what 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 if i'm angry with the government because they don't do anything to exact what fee they do, a lot of talking to me about like spending 210000000 on new apartments button. where are they? what is the

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 residents is a millionaire. in the shadows of the fancy stores and office buildings lies the home of stefan and fit in 50. did a 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

drop to minus 7 tonight, but that doesn't seem to bother them much. because a lot of 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 to you guys, when you get the health insurance card of these, i guess on types cards, i can use it to go to the dentist can program and to other doctors tune that are no problem under it. 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. 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. if you're the best, said he, there is no racism or aggression here. okay, there's good money here. here's a good, a good that good, good there and good charities. cute it's haven't. or 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 house and homelessness is so visible now. no, it is. what's also new are the tensions with roma,

the organized spinning the bed last. 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 spanish quote thus the century, 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 good, that's i believable. it sounds like they're saying, come and clean up our streets, come put forth dest, austin's olva. my bill feels like people are trying to sweep the issue under 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 sequester took as it gets an extremely high pressure job,

and that's why yes, 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 on the guest of honor has just confirmed. he'll be coming to the head of state grand duke, only 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 most schmitty, 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 collider,

all is every single. 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, but we do regularly. i'm kind of simple 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. just a left his home country of portugal to come here with big hopes to see him put it up with it over there. i want it to work here, but there are hardly any jobs. something from what kind of work do you want happening for construction? so, but there's nothing to do right now. no, i just 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. that might make them as uh, in experience to provide new luxembourg is a rich countries. but that doesn't guarantee you work at a value because 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, and those are the worst case. i'll 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 2022 looks and burgers earned an average of 119230 years. in germany,

the figure was 46150, and in france 38590 euros. the young exhorts 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 piece 22 all the time give solve. it's getting difficult to find anything these days. there are more and more foreigners coming in line called job and they get everything blown up. there are certain movies and lots and burgers are left to get by on their own work done by the all 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 for the um, the game done and 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 the and then 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 as well. just again, i'm the kind of person who likes working off. i don't want to live off the stay so to 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 i'll 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 feel 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 god. 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 lots of murders are beginning exams, that emotional, but they don't really do anything for us. the stuff we'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. the voice of the streets very own newspaper team, are working on their next edition. another little enterprise designed to give people like search coupler, a path back to work. the almost like it was good at 1st i go, i don't know 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. want to give another so the editor was really impressed with a lot of the stuff. and then they sat 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 physic brown. while that some of this, this is leticia a piece on it's a nice that traditional media don't cover in products and engineering is, was feeling kind of, we're in touch with people and the problems with which we learned about 1st time. and hopefully in the soon the 6 on us as the henry reports and the language, the same people understand with their priorities in mind to do it. there's question on, within that source, trends itself. this we are the voice of the street is in such a shipment of costs. sales and his colleague mary, lend fudge. are both welfare recipients. they know from personal experience,

what it means to be the 4 and the grand duchy of luxembourg. this the last it's 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 keep in mind. but if you don't, it's difficult to get by with the community invite that's cool. the on to this scapes of a new. it's not as if there's one group with everyone sticking together like, no, it looks like it's solid. do you have the roof and the poor? and there's a big divide by the to the, to distribute the street newspaper to subscribers here in the wealthy old town area of luxembourg city like the ministry of culture stem for this plus with the newspapers from salvage. and maryland perspective,

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. and not the shy do i was married for 16 years, destiny of i. and when we got divorce, i'm just confused. 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 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. but when i said where i worked and what i earned, and i think in the mood, suddenly changes is easy and the guy said no use. because rabies are considered anti social or too lazy to work. if isn't to follow and solve it and talking to them at the same time. so just neighborhood has become increasingly hub 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, to about austin to the house. but it's far too expensive. here to tell you this tiny room is sandwiches. home. female gee, 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,

sleeps on the couch across the room. and this shares, single room apartment doesn't come cheap. this was he has only been 2 months behind 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 egg with 50 so i can cook. it hurts sometimes . otherwise you'll get it just be bachelor's meals microwave or can't or that some of them because i don't know if that 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 who have a home. but where are they? do you see a history? the other there's so many big and places and so there's dancer 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 the smart 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 and just had 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, so 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. 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 that are also called april 5th. i'm, you know, they have no interest in building housing fix. yeah. and yeah, i'm on that off. i mean, a said a general to classical piece. you mentioned the dynamic economic development means printer properties will increase in value by 5 or 10 percent a year. anyway. hope all deciding c said 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, per cool. so at the moment that locks,

and there's only 2 percent of the housing in the country is affordable housing. so this, this is extremely low for, for the 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. 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

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 up your life. cause that's my last i'm named vendor yet. otherwise you'll never get out of this vicious cycle and if it flies these levels. patrick's heart you 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. the executive team do made up this process. i went through a lot of things on the street that give some info and then there was this place you could go and you were told just you're in good hands, comfortable. and there's someone who will listen to you that patrick's been clean

for 14 years and now spends his afternoons working for the voice of the street pointed without them might still be on the street with a rather i wouldn't be here and i'm grateful for their health stuff, at least on the voice of the street, also runs this laundry and has a working arrangements with a major supermarket chain. dig it and 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 . i care about sustainability and social issues. we can't allow food to end up in the trash either. it's better to donate it to people in the sun. you know this was the movie porpoise in it. when i was a manager here was this guy always told alexandra that when i retired, i'd help out as a volunteer the big one. if i miss you on guys, that's how i ended up inch them from this task. you that simple, this book, they need volunteers as to what you get most through. and this is my way of making

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 for these visitors, have donated a vacuum ceiling machine. and i was thinking about becoming more involved as no fit got to get the law more 14 tons of food in mind to function. and that's how

bad it toward teen tons that don't get thrown away too and get used in our soup kitchens. they make 800 meals a day across the country, and 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 active. the user is dies from the sites, so 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. i had no way 9 people come to the store. the government has passed a ban on begging to beaten that and been disabled. and if it's banned, empty, lots of people will be forced into a life of crime. that probably was just fail if there's a shifting the problem somewhere else and viewed up in the wood. 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, who is used to high school or to of. how does that come before i feel like don't keep hold of a 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 type 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 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. we'll send them corners, get more than luck, some burgers. 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 binding 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 lock some burgers aren't able to help people who are suffering then which

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