On Saturday we want to have a discussion about why and how squats sometimes end up increasing the gentrification of cities rather than fighting against it, as you'd think they do. In the past year we've seen more and more squatting actions in the Netherlands, and it's important to reflect on why some people squat and who is reached by events in (public) squats.

We will talk about what gentrification is and link it to squats' possible roles in it. We hope that thinking about how we become part of the things we fight against can help us identify the processes, and enventually flipping the dynamic.