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25,000 public housing in Brussels 3600 days (number 6). May 2010.

The Brussels regional government arrangements for summer 2009 are ambitious. They provide, by 2019, a dramatic increase in the number of public housing by a standard to achieve in the next 10 years 15% of quality housing in public management and social purpose .

It seems that the current percentage of public housing is 10% but the exact numbers are unknown. Specifically, to meet the standard, about 25,000 public housing should be created in two legislatures (20 to 35,000 housing units estimated). It is therefore at least 200 units per month.

is an extremely proactive as tens of thousands of people waiting impatiently in a city where it can live where housing is provided, but where the housing gobbles up the majority of the budget of the poor.

Eleven months after the regional elections and ten months after the creation of new government, the concrete signs incite pessimism regardless of the willingness of each other. The concern shown and theoretically laudable prior consultation cache less and less painful lack of concrete progress. The objective

new concerns not only the construction of dwellings ab nihilo, but also the transformation of offices and property abandoned housing and the continued construction already initiated. And agreements concerning constructions and transformations the short, medium and long term , that is, logically, long term of 10 years, with a few short years and a few months.

For long-term objectives of a few months, we can already say the near certainty of failure . In fact, I usqu'ici, nothing concrete has been announced in these areas. While in cons, time has to abandon a project of the previous Parliament and reviewing other projects down.

If the government's objective was met, he would build, renovate and remodel. Manufactured housing costs on average at least 300,000 € all inclusive (land, construction, ...). Renovation or conversion, perfectly efficient and effective, could cost around € 50,000 per house included. The minimum conceivable average per home produced can be estimated at 100,000 € per unit concerned. In this sense, as virtually no accommodation is still created, regional and local authorities currently save at least 20 million € per month.

addition, these savings at the expense of the poor, we must remember that private owners are not too slow. The city grew from about 3,000 flights or very expensive homes per year, well knew, just like when you add water to salt water already less sweet, the solution is more brackish at least for those who care about those who can not afford nice new homes.

This letter bimonthly aims to be a spur to help achieve even partial goals.

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State of the realization of the 25,000 homes in 3600 days (known to 10 May 2010):

• number of public housing new built : 58
• number of public housing created from offices processed : 0
• number of public housing created from homes and other buildings abandoned: 0
• number of public housing created by other means (purchase, rental ,...): 0
• ( -) Deletions of public housing (acquisition by tenants, destruction ,...): 0
  
• Total new public housing actually created: 58
  
• Time : 10 months since the political agreements (11 months since the beginning of the legislature)
• time remaining to complete the provision of housing: 109 months
• Total number of public housing which should in principle be created during the time (based on 200 units per month): 2,200
• Minimum total saved by regional or local authorities in Brussels at the expense of those who occupy the dwellings: € 215,000,000
  

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Additional Information :

- A site http://www.planlogement.be was conducted by the State Secretariat in Brussels for Housing and Planning of the previous Parliament. Only the home page of the site is still accessible, but the content was removed. few months ago it seems that a new site must be carried forward by the administration, but this seems almost as complicated to build social housing in a real bricks.

- The text of the Agreement on Government's 2009-2014 July 12, 2009 is available on page
http://www.parlbruparl.irisnet.be/images/imgparl/accords2009/accordsfr.pdf .

- According to the newsletter of the Public Service Social Integration: The shortage of housing meant that social housing companies perform a more selective rent their homes and, because high rents in private rental, social rental offices are forced to seek higher prices for their sublease. Source http://www.mi-is.be , May 7, 2010.

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If I call the relevant information, they will be released in the next letter.

Didier Coeurnelle, councilor at Molenbeek-Saint-Jean

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I discovered the beach, the sand , Ocean ...

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The death of death. Number 14. April 2010. Small and progressive advocacy

Sooner or later it should be possible to find a cure not only against a particular disease, but against the true destiny - against death. In sum, the remedy for immortality should exist. Today men are also searching for this curative agent. Current medical science strives, not to exclude death itself, but to eliminate, however, as many as possible causes of the decline ever, to provide a still better life and longer. From the homily of Pope Benedict XVI, April 3, 2010

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Theme of the month: a much longer life and the Catholic religion

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far as religions are men they die of old age or accident. Nobody believes in Zeus, Jupiter, Amon or feathered serpent. But this does not prove that all existing religions will disappear or that men still die of old age. The past illuminates the future, it does not lock.

If some think that scientific advances are against religion, in fact it may be the reverse. If times were marked by the refusal to admit the possibility that the earth rotates, now Pope himself can sometimes be rather a precursor. Is that we are witnessing a turning point.

Many, if not all religions promise an afterlife. Here are two millennia announcement that the Catholic religion, for men and women, the return of all life in the future. While many concepts such as devil, hell wither, belief in life after death is generally present among Christians.

But that said the Catholic religion on a much longer life before death. Is this desirable?

According to the Bible, Adam and Eve could not initially grow old, only after having tasted the fruit of the tree of knowledge they were achieved. Also in the Bible, before the flood, men lived much longer and reached what we still call the ages "biblical" or "canonical. Methuselah would have attained the age of 969 years.

the occasion of the feast of Easter, the pope spoke about a much longer life. So a priori quite surprising, he believes that man will find eventually a cure against aging. This is probably explained by the fact that the leader of the Catholic Church is especially recommended by knowledgeable scientists. But he goes on to write that if that happens Humanity grow old in an extraordinary proportion, there would be more room for youth. The ability of innovation would die and life would be interminable, no paradise, but rather a conviction.

It could be initially responded to the Pope as the world's population has never been as old as today in the history of mankind. And its innovative power has never been stronger. And that even a pope 83 years (Benedict XVI) has further capacity for innovation! Some might even accuse the Catholic authorities to fear that Catholicism that promises resurrection after death loses its appeal if we can live a very long time before death.

But beyond these arguments, more pragmatically, it may be recalled that to date regarding the progress medical reluctance appeared in the Christian world in the early progress and as they were developed. But they disappeared once the technical progress made. It was so for example analgesics and dissections.

Nothing in the Catholic religion forbids the extension of life and therefore there is no limit. On the contrary, the fact to help others live better is considered desirable and the Bible repeatedly describes lives much longer than the current.

It is therefore possible to consider the statements of Pope adapt to changing health and technology to come as the Catholic religion has adapted in the past. The pope's homily of April 3, 2010 is the first step of awareness of these developments.

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The good news this month

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States of the European Union join forces to research on aging

Researchers across Europe have meeting in Sweden on April 15 to develop a new pan-European strategy to fight against neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

This is the first joint initiative to address the "challenges" can not be solved by a Member State acting alone. More information: http://www.euractiv.com/en/ science/eu-countries-join- forces-on-aging-research-news-448949 .

Methusalem Foundation has created a price: "Neworgan Prize". He challenged scientists to achieve, before 2020, transplantation of an organ (liver, kidney, heart ,...) created from the patient's own cells. More information: http://www.mfoundation.org .

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technoprogressiste (1 May 2010)

Since May 2009, life expectancy in good health has increased by about one quarter in the electoral district of Brussels-Halle-Vivorde and nearly one half in Bangladesh. Millions of citizens Dutch, French and the rest of the world who have died over the last twelve months without progress in health and economic growth flowing relatively quiet day today.

Until the early 20th century at least, the desire for technological advancement and the desire for social equality were related. The left dreaming of tomorrows that sing. These were made of tomorrows more equality, more goods and a world easier to live physically and technologically.

Today, liberals no longer dream of little technical progress. This is not because the progress before benefit all, primarily benefit the rich and sometimes create unemployment for the working poor, as was the case for centuries. This is probably due to the trauma of the failure of the Soviet Union which claimed almost inextricably communism and technical progress. And more recently, development pollution has led many progressives to want to "turn the tide" when they should instead be purified and thus direct otherwise.

Today in abundance, the aftermath has sung widely in the North, but also in the South. Contrary to what many say, the acceleration is not less but more extraordinary in the South. Infant mortality was a major source of death continues to decrease and this even in the majority of the states of sub-Saharan Africa, despite the ravages of malnutrition and the AIDS epidemic.

In this context of progress global human unparalleled in the history of mankind, the mobile phone is the first current object ever moved from being a luxury good than as a tool accessible to the majority of citizens of the world in less than a generation. In less than a decade, the majority of citizens who can read is likely to access mobile internet access. An important part of universal collective knowledge will be accessible to almost everyone, almost without cost and without discrimination. And so, even the poor citizens of the South have access to more knowledge than was available to the richest people in the North ago Barely a century.

developments in the short and medium term, the progressives would benefit from technoprogressistes. They could require that every citizen is entitled to a mobile phone (with low radiation, but with strong access to community services) rather than focusing on the dangers of these devices. They propose that would benefit from Google, Wikipedia and other websites operate as utilities increasingly developed rather than to intervene almost exclusively from the dangers of Google and its competitors. A left

proactive could require significant public investment to enable to all age much less in a few decades. Today the differences between life expectancies in the south and north are dwindling. But if the research for better health and longer life are considered with suspicion, progress will be reserved for more affluent, only able to afford care. A left

favorable to progress more generally could claim the largest technology investment group in the medical fields, knowledge dissemination and management of energy. Fortunately in this latter area, environmentalists and the left seem to establish or re technoprogressistes, but focusing mainly their energy on the problem of global warming. This while the main environmental issue, close but not identical, is that of providing sufficient and timely energy abundant, clean and renewable. These advances

fantastic does not solve (yet) all the problems of welfare. This is explained partly because the abundance is an inadequate instrument to allow everyone happy. This is also explained because, beyond a certain level of material comfort, the perception of welfare is almost exclusively by comparison with other hardware, which level is progressing well. It therefore remains to the left (and not only it) to discover how to increase happiness in an economy of abundance where milk and honey flowing in biblical times so much for all that no longer satisfies us. Why

still left technoprogressiste should it be? Because it grows and the equality of the future. But also because the rapid technological conquests include enormous risks, not only in developments already in progress often discussed (pollution, greenhouse effects, risks to privacy, digital divide ,...) but also developments in the medium term. These are existential risks related to control more of the absolute structure of living matter and perhaps eventually to the development of artificial intelligence. And the precautionary principle in a society evolves, it is not always stop technological change, it may instead accelerate them to save lives and reduce risk.

For that technical progress is most likely to be as an improvement at all, so that tomorrow is as extraordinary a brighter future, a favorable elements is left proactive, able to prevail peace, equality, Justice and concern for the common good on the mechanisms for financial and material interests in the short term.

must think globally to act locally. We must also think long-term action in the short term. Including the understanding that the acceleration of technology, among other means that the long term the 21st century is much closer than the long-term previous centuries. Science fiction today, dream or nightmare, or more probably dream and nightmare, is not only the reality of our children, so will ours.

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• To learn a little more: see especially http://technoprog-fr.blogspot.com

• For statistical information relating to increases in life expectancy
: http://www.gapminder.org
• This text is an updated version a text circulated in May 2009. Appointment on 1 May 2011!

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