“I am not for and not against,” says Marty Steenkist, who lives with her family on Spaarndamseweg diagonally opposite the plan area. “It is often busy here, so I understand those worries. And I also wonder if that hospitality industry does not give much noise. On the other hand, I also have a son of living in the twenty at home. He must also be able to live in itself.”
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Affordable homes for young people – that is the most important reason for Erest van der Meijde, director of project developer Wibaut, to continue with this project. And that despite this new setback. “It is a great social problem. Everyone knows a young person looking for a home. It is my mission to do something about it.”
“I am not the only one in it,” explains Van der Meijde. “I receive many encouraging messages, also from the municipality. I hope that they too feel the urgency to solve this quickly. I respect everyone’s opinion, including those of local residents, but we have to realize that the young people are in a trapped situation. This can just go two or three years longer before they last in this way.”