Shelter Our Students (SOS)
Protests demanding affordable housing surge in the Netherlands
Various housing rights groups and progressive youth/students groups in major Dutch cities have formed coalitions and started mobilizations demanding affordable and dignified housing
In Netherlands, students protesting housing crisis occupy Groningen University building
Progressive sections in the Dutch city of Groningen have launched the Shelter Our Students (SOS) campaign, a couch surfing initiative to help homeless students
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