Today, the collective Zone Neutre — a community of undocumented comrades — was evicted from the building they had occupied since March 2025. The building stands at the corner of Square de l’Aviation and Boulevard Poincaré in Brussels.
70 people lived there, among them 18 children. Together, they claimed their right to housing — they took the building, filled it with life, and wove themselves into the heartbeat of the neighbourhood.
“The building was empty and will remain so for months. The owner has not yet obtained a permit for his plans, which involve opening a new hotel. This would already be the fourth hotel on the square, at a time when our neighbourhood is in dire need of affordable housing. In one year, average rents in the neighbourhood have increased by 5,37%, and Curegem has barely 4% social housing. Do wealthy Dutch entrepreneurs have more to say than the residents themselves?” (https://en.squat.net/2025/10/14/brussels-stop-the-eviction-of-the-zone-neutre-collective/)
This eviction means that, on the eve of winter, 70 people will be thrown onto the streets with nowhere to go. We see it everywhere — the city’s cold machinery grinding away the last traces of humanity. Racism and borders carve the landscape of Europe’s cities, dividing who is seen and who is left to freeze. While buildings stand empty and the bosses wonder what profits to extract next, thousands are left to sleep on the concrete. There is no other response but to resist, to fight, to take the next building!
People without papers are denied access to the most basic needs: there is no secure housing, no health- and no social infrastructure. The empty promise of institutional “security and care” exists only for citizens. The illusion of security is a tool to keep us quiet, to suppress revolt against the State’s violence unfolding right before our eyes.
Our comrades take matters into their own hands. They occupy buildings. They build solidarity infrastructure, from medical care and childcare to collective kitchens. They bring life back to neighbourhoods.
When people are denied papers, they are denied housing; when housing becomes a commodity, only the documented and the rich can stay. Freedom of Movements means housing for all and everywhere.
The housing struggle is always also a struggle against borders. Because borders don’t just cut across maps. They cut through our cities. Borders decide who gets a home and who sleeps outside, who is counted as a “resident” and who is treated as disposable. Every eviction, every detention, every luxury project follows the same logic: The privatisation of space, the militarisation of urban control, and the exclusion of anyone marked as “unwelcome”. The same state and capitalist entities that build fences at the edges of Europe evict the houses inside our neighbourhoods. Imperialists and bosses can be targeted!
Zone Neutre fights and lives the impossible into existence. They organize across borders, refused to beg the State, and fought their space in a city that tried to erase them. They never cried for help, but shouted defiance! It’s self-organization, mutual aid, and the refusal to wait for permission.
The bosses and imperialists think the cities were built for them. We’ll make the ground burn under their feet until they leave. We will take the city back — everywhere.
Defend Zone Neutre! Open new houses! Create homes for all!
With love and keep the fire burning,
Your Rigaer94
DEFEND ZONE NEUTRE
AGAINST RACISM
AGAINST GENTRIFICATION
STOP THE EVICTION
NO BORDER NO NATION