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Housing Action Groups in Europe, Friday, 17th April 2015 The undersigning organisations, united in the struggle for the right to housing and to the city, strongly support the protests against the planned free trade agreement TTIP (“Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership” between EU and USA) and the already negotiated […] Among the many financial investors present at MIPIM 2015 is the huge private equity firm Blackstone L.P., which calls itself “the world’s largest private sector owner of real estate assets”. Through buy outs of distressed subprime mortgages and other real estate assets it recently became a big landlord in the U.S. and in Spain. […] International finance funds have recently landed in Spain to take advantage of post-housing-bubble ‘bargains’. With very bad consequences for people affected by the crsis, the international commission of PAH said at the occasion of the MIPIM 2015. […] Also Turkey and Istanbul are very present at the MIPIM this year. One of the “highlights” is the presentation of the giant project of a canal between the Marmara Sea and the Black Sea. This “second Bosporus”, one of president Erdogans manic ideas, is a fundamental threat to nature and man. […] London since many years is facing unprecedented levels of housing marketisation and commodification. No wonder that local activists took the slogan against the MIPIM 2015 in Cannes when the business planned a Mipim UK in last October. Here broad and loud protests really had some effect and disturbed the opening of the official fair. […] While inhabitants in Spain are facing a new wave of mortgage sales to private equity funds like Blackstone, a current main trend in the German residential property sector is the concentration of housing capital in a few listed joint stock companies. Most of them – and also their big shareholders -are present at MIPIM […] Currently the annual MIPIM is taking place in Cannes. Twelve months ago housing rights groups for the first time raised their voice to protest against this international real estate fair. “25 years of Mipimism is enough” they stated. Half a year later people in London took the slogan and delayed the opening of the […] Tenants Association of Witten (Ruhr, Germany) From the point of view of the Tenants Association of Witten (Ruhr, Germany) we can very much welcome the actions of today in Barcelone, New York City and San Francisco, which protested against the housing business of Blackstone, one of the largest private equity firms worldwide. In our […] At 8th May the Platform of Citizens Affected by Mortgages (PAH) presented a new campaign to reclaim solutions to the dramatic housing crisis: The PAH plans to hold peaceful demonstrations (“escraches”) in electoral events during the European Parliament elections campaign.
[…] At its “Anti Mipim Tribunal” in Cannes, March 2014, the “European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and the City” presented cases from 12 countries which showed some of the consequences of the business which was celebrated at the Mipim. Thanks to support Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le Progrès de l’Homme now […] |
#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 
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 |
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