DEN HAAG (ANP) - Minister Eleanor Boekholt-O'Sullivan (Volkshuisvesting, D66) heeft nog geen concreet nieuw plan om snel meer mensen in de knel aan een woning te helpen. In samenwerking met provincies, gemeenten en woningcorporaties zijn wel "bouwstenen opgesteld", die evenwel pas na de zomer tot concrete afspraken moeten leiden. Wat die bouwstenen precies behelzen, is niet duidelijk.

Doel is om tot "aanvullende vormen van huisvesting" te komen, zodat de druk op de voorraad sociale huurwoningen afneemt, meldt Boekholt-O'Sullivan. Zij denkt daarbij aan flexwoningen, ombouw van leegstaande kantoren, gedeelde woningen en tijdelijke woonplekken voor statushouders. Stuk voor stuk oplossingen die al veel langer worden genoemd.

Op veel plaatsen wordt volgens Boekholt-O'Sullivan al hard gewerkt aan meer betaalbare huurwoningen voor met name starters, mensen die door bijvoorbeeld een relatiebreuk snel woonruimte nodig hebben, en erkende vluchtelingen die vanuit een opvangcentrum naar een reguliere woning moeten. Maar om dat op grotere schaal voor elkaar te krijgen, is "een extra impuls" nodig.

Zorgvuldig

Boekholt-O'Sullivan erkent dat zij de problemen bij het huisvesten van deze groepen "liever vandaag dan morgen" opgelost zou zien. Maar meer haast zegt zij niet te kunnen maken. "Ik wil dit zorgvuldig doen, stap voor stap, zodat ik weet dat alle partijen aan boord blijven die het moeten uitvoeren. Anders is het een sprookje, en het moet echt leiden tot een oplossing."

De minister wil allereerst actie van gemeenten die nu te weinig statushouders huisvesten. Dat gold in de eerste helft van dit jaar voor zeven op de tien gemeenten, bleek eerder deze week uit een analyse van het ANP. Zij krijgen anderhalf jaar de tijd om die achterstand "versneld" weg te werken.

Boekholt-O'Sullivan heeft "kwartiermakers" aangesteld vanuit het Rijk en de koepelorganisaties van gemeenten en woningcorporaties (VNG en Aedes). Zij vormen samen een "aanjaagteam" dat in het hele land "goede voorbeelden" gaat verzamelen waar anderen hun voordeel mee kunnen doen.

The cultural phenomenon is beginning her latest era in a castle built inside Madison Square Garden. It’s the perfect celebration for our post-privacy age

It is a cast-iron rule of the comments-section era that there is absolutely no celebrity you can write about without some person dialling in to post a contemptuous: “Who?” Did I say some person? Forgive me: I think I might have meant some guy. Strangely, you never see a “who?” below articles about sport, as though the posters have somehow grasped that ostentatiously announcing that they have precisely no idea about Ousmane Dembélé is not some status-symbol flex, and could secure them quite a painful wedgie.

I am looking forward to catching my first “who?” about Taylor Swift on the occasion of her wedding to Travis Kelce, which is taking place – perhaps you’ve heard? – in New York today. Because of course Miss Americana and her NFL star fiance are getting married over the Fourth of July weekend. And not just any Fourth of July, but the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, drafted by Thomas Jefferson. (I know: who?)

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A refreshing Mancunian twist on two classic British gin-based drinks, infused with elderflower liqueur and earl grey

This is a reimagining of two classic British drinks, the English garden and the London fog, but with a Mancunian twist. It brings together gin, earl grey, elderflower and honey in a refreshing, lightly floral cocktail that’s perfectly suited to drinking in the garden on a hot day. We like to champion local producers, so use Salford Distillery’s gin, but any well-balanced, citrus-forward dry gin will work.

Lucy Bryant, Society, Manchester

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From Miles Davis to Count Basie and Etta James to Prince, Rotterdam’s North Sea jazz festival has hosted the biggest names in music. As the event turns 50, musicians and organisers share their favourite memories from past years – and tell us why jazz isn’t dead

For a weekend in July each year, a vast warehouse complex in the port city of Rotterdam becomes home to the biggest names in jazz. Under the banner of the North Sea jazz festival, the labyrinthine, windowless space has played host to performances from the likes of Miles Davis, free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman, singer Etta James, saxophonist Wayne Shorter and even Prince.

“We’ve had every major figure in jazz play for us over the past five decades,” senior programme manager Sander Grande says. “It’s the place where all the musicians want to hang and where audiences come to see art that is true and beautiful.”

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She’s been a soap icon, a Royle and even a zombie pensioner. Now the actor is starring in Ann Droid, Diane Morgan’s madcap comedy about an elderly woman and her cybernetic companion

Sue Johnston is the kind of actor who usually can’t stand seeing herself on screen, but for Ann Droid she made an exception. The new sitcom by Diane Morgan and Sarah Kendall stars the 82-year-old as a recent widow whose son hires a humanoid robot called Linda (played with delightful uncanniness by Morgan herself) to assist her after he moves out. The results are initially farcical: Linda is a dated – and therefore relatively cheap – model who lacks the intelligence of newer variants and attempts to cheer people up by blasting Cotton Eye Joe at them. Yet the pair soon become inseparable. Johnston describes the show as “rich with humour and love”. When she watched it back, she found it so absorbing that “I forgot it was me – I very rarely do that and I just enjoyed it.”

Ann Droid is worth raving about on its own terms – it’s rambunctiously funny and exceptionally poignant – but it is clear Johnston’s enthusiasm stems from somewhere else too. “I’m proud of Diane and I just want it to work for her,” she says with feeling. The pair met on the set of the Sky sitcom Rovers before Morgan made it big with Philomena Cunk and Motherland and kept in touch. “Which you don’t with everyone. We’re both silly about our dogs; we just made a connection.” She was thrilled to reunite. “There’s a lot about Diane that reminds me of Caroline Aherne. They’ve got that northern, straight-face, cut-through humour. And they’re geniuses.”

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The 250th anniversary is arriving among Black communities as a whisper instead of a roar

Not soon after Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration, there emerged a viral illustration of four Black women sitting at the top of a building while watching the world burn at a distance. They are observing with coffee cups in hand. An American flag hangs over the edge. If that exhaustion hadn’t been made clear enough, Black people, particularly across TikTok and Threads, have urged one another to “not give them a reaction”.

The “them” is white people who find Black rage exciting and lucrative for their own personal gain. We’re not allowing our anger to become spectacle. We’re not shouting any more. What is most important is to stay alive, take care of one another, and to allow ourselves to step to the forefront for the rights that they have taken for granted as we’ve risked our lives to protect them. There is an old African American proverb: “If you can’t hear, then you must feel.”

Morgan Jerkins is a senior writer, race and equity, at the Guardian US

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Exclusive: National Crime Agency and safety watchdog issue guidance amid rise in explicit material online

• Analysis | AI prey: why watchdogs are telling parents to protect children from nudification apps

The UK National Crime Agency has recommended parents should not put photos of their children on public display online as part of landmark guidance to tackle the rise of AI-generated sexual abuse material.

Advice issued by the NCA and the child safety watchdog the Internet Watch Foundation suggests parents and guardians make their social media accounts private or share pictures of their children through a “close friends” group.

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Tech companies working with US law enforcement "significantly degraded" the NetNut residential proxy network as part of an ongoing effort to disrupt the tools cybercriminals use to conceal their activity, say researchers. The work was carried out by Google, Lumen, Shadowserver, the FBI, and others, and marks a continuation of the IPIDEA proxy network disruption from January. According to Google Cloud, those working on the operation believe NetNut was among the most popular residential proxy network providers and had at least 2 million devices enrolled in its botnet, comprising mainly small TV-streaming hardware. Crims often use residential proxy networks to make it look like their traffic is actually coming from legit homes and businesses. In the same way that other residential proxy networks expand their pool of enrolled devices, NetNut distributed its own SDK via these devices. Proxy providers often approach users under the guise of monetizing their spare bandwidth, paying them a fee in exchange for letting their SDK run on their devices. The official advice is, of course, to refuse any offers of this kind. Not only does it help feed the cybercrime ecosystem, but it can also lead to vulnerabilities elsewhere in home networks. NetNut offered its own standalone proxy networks, as well as mobile and datacenter proxies, and a slew of scrapers and datasets. However, it also offered a reseller program, and experts believe many other residential proxy networks are powered by NetNut's own, which means the disruption may have further downstream effects. "While we expect this disruption to have a larger ripple effect across the residential proxy ecosystem, observations after the disruption of IPIDEA proved that individual networks can appear resilient," Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said. "What we have observed is that when faced with the degradation of their own botnet, proxy operators begin buying capacity from their competitors, effectively becoming a reseller. "We recognize that creating a lasting disruption in this fluid ecosystem means we must scale our efforts to target the infrastructure of several interconnected providers. We will continue to observe the composition of the NetNut network and map out how its peers adapt to this action." Residential proxy networks are not illegal, although they are often abused for cybercrime. These networks are ostensibly pitched as a means to shore up online privacy, and promote ideals such as freedom of expression without risk of being traced. However, the same privacy-preserving features of these networks are used by cybercriminals to mask their malicious activity. They enroll ordinary devices, which are connected to innocent residential networks, at scale and offer them to customers as exit nodes. Cybercriminals can make use of these networks to channel their traffic through these nodes, making the traffic appear to originate from an IP address they do not control. "In a single week during June 2026, GTIG observed 316 distinct threat clusters using suspected NetNut exit nodes, including cybercriminal and espionage groups," said Google. "These bad actors can use NetNut to mask their origin IP address when accessing victim environments, accessing their own infrastructure, and conducting password spray attacks." Reports also suggest that NetNut has a role to play in other botnet families. GTIG said it found plugin components for large-scale botnets such as Badbox 2.0, while other public reports have noted signs of NetNut being used to infect devices with Mirai variants. The Register asked GTIG why NetNut's second domain (netnut.io) remains online, while netnut.com returns a "This website has been seized" splash page, but it did not immediately reply. Google's announcement hinted at similar takedowns to take place in the future, as the residential proxy network market continues to grow. However, it said these ad hoc disruptions are only effective for so long, and that a long-term approach would require support from ISPs, mobile platforms, and other technology companies. ®

Er was tijdens de coronacrisis „voortdurend sprake van inbreuken op grondrechten door alle opgelegde beperkingen.

Tessa Sparreboom werd geconfronteerd met een nieuw fenomeen: 'het zomerlezen'. Bij aanschaf van een boek ontving ze 'Petit Café du Bonheur' van Ilja Gort, waarin ene Fleur Blom een café koopt in een Frans dorp. Blij met het geschenk is ze niet. "Weer een boek waarin de jonge vrouw, mijn soort, ongelofelijk debiel wordt geportretteerd,"