PANO ANDERLECHT
Belgian TV program Pano just aired a pretty shocking investigation into social housing allocation in Brussels (Anderlecht).
The report suggests that political influence and informal interventions may have played a role in who gets access to social housing despite more than 60,000 households currently being on waiting lists in Brussels.
The people named in the report are members of the Belgian socialist parties PS and Vooruit, and several of them are still politically active today.
A lot of people here already believe that “knowing the right people” helps you move up the list faster. That perception alone is already damaging for public trust.
Did anyone else here watch the report? Curious to hear what people think about it. And if you haven’t seen it yet, I’d really recommend watching it.