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A mobilisation involving several hundred activists prevented the planned eviction of 80 people occupying an empty building in the Brussels commune of Ixelles.
Squatters who have taken up residence on the site of the former Chinese consulate in Auderghem will soon be evacuated after months spent at the building.
A Brussels court has ruled that the Belgian state and its immigration authority Fedasil must pay the water and electricity bills of a building that is being used by homeless asylum seekers.
A group of about 80 asylum seekers who have been occupying a squat on Rue de la Loi have won their court case against the Belgian state and its migration authority, Fedasil.
After clearing a squat on the Rue des Palais in the Brussels neighbourhood of Schaerbeek, authorities discovered a dead body and multiple cases of tuberculosis and scabies among the residents.
Palais des Droits is a squat in Rue des Palais in Brussels, home to 700 asylum seekers over the past six weeks.
The Brussels regional government has set aside nearly €1 million to convert currently empty space in various buildings into housing.
Squatters have taken over the former Bpost office building located at the corner of Rue du Belvédère and Chaussée de Boondael, down the street from Flagey.
167 squatters, the majority of whom are transit migrants, currently occupy an abandoned office building in Jette and neither the building’s owner nor the municipality knows what to do with them.
