Sint-Truiden is A single mother of three from Sint-Truiden, belgium, has been waiting for 8 years on social housing. Now lives with Wendy Mignolet with her offspring in a severely damaged house that they rent on the private market. She is but one of the more than 40 inhabitants of Sint-Truiden that this winter should be without a decent roof over the head, so says the new opposition party, STRONG Stadspartij.

Wendy’s not easy, so she tells herself. The Limburg is chronically ill and also one of her three children has medical problems. The misery with their house, she can miss as toothache. Currently she rents a house on the private market in Hoepertingen. But after a heavy storm, in which the roof afwaaide, there was a lot of damage to the property. And the owner could never recover. (read on below)