RECLAIMING SPACES

On the Eve of #HumanRightsDay, here is @leilanifarha's message from last year. 1 year later and we still need to understand that: Housing is home, and home is a #HumanRight. 🏠🌎 #Right2Housing #MakeTheShift twitter.com/adequatehousin… Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

@FEANTSA @EuropeanYouthEU @ChristophidouEU @FocusIreland @Abbe_Pierre @UNCLLAJ @adequatehousing @leilanifarha @AndyBurnhamGM @ClaudeCahn1 Wohnungslosigkeit ist kein Verbrechen. Menschen in Wohnungsnot brauchen Wohnraum nicht Repression! #notacrime #housingnothandcuffs Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

Activists from around Europe have come together with an important message for #HumanRightsDay: "Homelessness is not a crime." Please like & share @EuropeanYouthEU @ChristophidouEU @FocusIreland @Abbe_Pierre @UNCLLAJ @adequatehousing @leilanifarha @AndyBurnhamGM @ClaudeCahn1 Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

Governments across the world are experiencing collective amnesia as to what sparked the 2008 #GlobalFinancialCrisis. The #G20 leaders must ensure that financial actors and govt's are prevented from selling-off the human #Right2Housing to highest bidder. ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/… Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

Thousands of homeless and destitute EU migrants, mostly of Roma origin, are living in desperate situations across #Sweden while authorities deliberately deny them access to the most basic services. New @amnesty report: amnesty.org/en/latest/news… Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

@SponDiehl @mieterverein_do @SPIEGELONLINE @nicoocin @p_seibt Bin leider Mieter bei dem Laden. Die Modernisierung bei mir im Haus ist eigentlich ne Renovierung. Sollte 4 Monate dauern, sind jetzt schon im 13ten!!! Kämpfe seit Beginn gegen die Mieterhöhung. Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

@SponDiehl @SPIEGELONLINE @nicoocin @p_seibt habe Erfahrungen mit dieser Firma, da ich mal jemanden in einer Auseinandersetzung vertreten habe. Ich habe nie wieder seitdem einen derartig kalkulierten und organisierten Betrug erlebt. Rentner wurden aus Wohnungen geekelt usw. Ekelerregendes Unternehmen. Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

#EXPULSIONS @VannesBretSud #VannesHabitat : une #enseignante à la #retraite expulsée la veille de la #TreveHivernale" vía @RTLFrance @RTLouest_bauby rtl.fr/actu/debats-so… Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

Outrageous. But if true that this is NOT a matter EU law, it IS still a matter of International #humanrights law: Hungary’s actions are non compliant with its international #humanrights obligations. And what of EU’s interntnl human rights obligations for member States? twitter.com/FreekSpinnewij… Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

One quarter of the world’s urban population, 870 million people, live in grossly inadequate housing in informal settlements, usually deprived of water and sanitation services and left to construct shelter out of whatever materials they can find. unhousingrapp.org/user/pages/04.… Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

Today @leilanifarha will be launching her latest report on #Right2Housing and Informal Settlements upgrading to the @UN General Assembly! At 15:00EST watch live here: webtv.un.org Read the report here: unhousingrapp.org/user/pages/04.… Press Release: ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/… Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

Over 100 rough sleepers in #Hungary have been 'warned' by police and 2 have been arrested - an engineer who lost his home and is now in poor health, and an elderly woman forced to leave home after the death of her husband: bit.ly/2Ai0if4 #HungaryWatch Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

Developers like Silver Property buy buildings inhabited by immigrant working-class families. Time & time again, Silver displaces families from their homes, cuts the units down, doubles or triples the price, & rents them back to only the single professionals who can afford them. Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

It is a disgrace. It is useless, cruel and is against the recently adopted European Pillar of social rights @EU_Commission #EPSR @mariannethyssen The country should house the homeless instead! @FEANTSA twitter.com/istvan_ujhelyi… Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

Scrap the Right to Buy! #HousingDay18 Total right to buy discounts have climbed to £1 billion a year – leading to a net loss of some £300 million, according to new analysis from the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) tinyurl.com/y9rh4fjw Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

Today #WorldHomelessDay we remind the 100 million homeless girls, boys, youth, women & men and more than 1 billion people without adequate housing and habitat 📢our rights are not commodities and affordable and adequate Housing is Necessary for the Realization of #HumanRights Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces