Since the beginning of the year the “International Working Group for the Promotion of Market Regulation and Market Alternatives at Habitat III” has tried to advocate for an inclusion of socially grounded regulations of markets that stop the speculation and treat housing, land and mortgage as goods for people and not for profit. This […]
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Statement by MieterInnenverein Witten (Witten Tenants Assoc.) on behalf of the “International Working Group for the Regulation of Real Estate Markets and Market Alternatives” to the Habitat III Plenary 20th Oct. 2016 […] Within the frame of the conference „Ways to affordable Housing“ of the German Network Renting & Housing, Sept. 16 & 17 in Berlin, Humboldt University <GERMAN PROGRAM HERE> housing right internationalists are organizing workshops dealing with critical views on Habitat III and political proposals for the regulation of financialized real estate corporations. […] Members of the “international working group for the promotion of market regulation and market alternatives at Habitat III” have reminded the currently ongoing prepcom in Surabaya, that the new draft of the “New Urban Agenda” still is totally is ignoring the economic frames of the global housing crisis. “Without addressing the global economic frames […] in:Barbara Schönig | Sebastian Schipper (Eds.): Urban Austerity: Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis on Cities in Europe, Verlag Theater der Zeit 2016 1. Introduction In Germany, since 1999, more than three million rental housing units have been traded in the context of large‐scale transactions. Sales to “financial investors” played a dominant role among […] for the informal hearings of stakeholders June 6 – 8 in New York The signatories of this statement are among the authors of the open letter dated 31 January 2016: “Make social regulation of real estate markets an issue at Habitat III”. Most of the positions expressed in the following have been discussed among […] In August 2015 the German Forum on Environment & Development submitted a first critical statement on the preparation of Habitat III. Statement of the German Forum on Environment & Development on Habitat III PDF at http://www.forumue.de The German Forum on Environment & Development was founded in 1992 after the UN conference in Rio on […] STATEMENT of European housing movements on the clash of the European austerity regime with the Greek people The Greek government has called for a national referendum on Sunday, 5th July, for the new ‘bailout’ terms presented by the EU, the ECB and the IMF on June 15. These terms include an extension of high […] demands for investment prgrammes and non-profit housing sector On May 31 the assembly of the German tenant union DMB expressed concerns regarding “the still expanding negative impacts of the financial and Euro crisis and the neoliberal austerity policies on housing conditions in Europe, like housing losses for economic reasons, evictions and permanently increasing […] May 31 a huge majority of delegates at the biannual federal assembly („Mietertag“) of the German tenant union “Deutscher Mieterbund” (DMB) voted for two motions expressing a political rejection of the planned free trade agreements TTIP and CETA. The delegates, who represent regional and local associations with a membership basis of 1.27 million households, […] |
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 
Demands for the building of a new #tenantunion by a student syndicate in #Frankfurt twitter.com/Axo_LotteL/sta…
#Right2housing requires the #expropriation of expropriating landlords. Demands @ manif in #Frankfurt #mwh2010 #Mietenwahnsinn twitter.com/iLfrankfurt/st…
#citiesforall manifestation against rent increase, for the #right2housing #right2city Now in #Frankfurt #mwh2010  
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 
90% of rental properties fail minimum standards; 80% rent increases before RTB are found to be invalid; evictions by landlords are the NUMBER 1 cause of homelessness. Why is the government rewarding the landlord industry with tax breaks and bank rolling them with HAP? Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces
On #WorldHomelessDay we must all #MakeTheShift and understand #homelessness as a systemic failure to effectively and fully implement the #Right2Housing and reject the criminalization of homelessness. Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces 
On World Homeless Day - THINK: in first 6 mos of 2018 33,000+ evictions took place in Spain. It’s estimated that 2.3 million evictions were filed in the US in 2016. These myb “legal” evictions, their impact is not. Eviction into homelessness is violtn of int’l #humanrights law. twitter.com/santimdx5/stat… Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces
Informal Settlements are “habitats made by people”, who are creating homes, culture and community life in the most adverse circumstances. Strategies would have to include Core principles like the right to participation and inclusion and monitoring and access to justice mechanisms Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces
From #Cairo to #Oslo ! I’m in Norway with others from Lagos, Barcelona, Nairobi. We’re talking about #forcedevictions caused by private equity firms and other global investors - pushing people out of cities. #pushback #right2housing #maketheshift Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces 
#Vonovia: Überhöhte Kosten in Modernisierungskalkulation aufgedeckt rtl.de/cms/team-wallr… Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces 
In nachbarschaftlicher und internationaler Zusammenarbeit wurde heute der Eingang einer Wohnung in Lissabon blockiert und Erfahrung ausgetauscht. Gerichtsvollzieher*in oder Polizei ist nicht aufgetaucht. Wir bleiben alle! @4HousingandCity #stopdespejos #handsoffourhomes Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces 
Big protests in Portugal against AirBnB & the decline in number of normal rentals. twitter.com/crosstowns/sta… Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces
Local organizer at #Lisbon protest: "The first time that so many neighbourhoods came togtheter. This is the first day of real life." 50 neighbourhood groups, 3000 participants, organizers say. Parallel protest in #Porto. #handsoffourhomes
They extract their profit from our lives. International solidarity at housing rights march in #Lisbon.  |
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