In Erwiderung der globalen Finanz- und Wohnungskrise:
G 20: Jetzt ist es Zeit, einen globalen Sozialpakt für ein gerechtes und nachhaltiges Wohnen zu schaffen !
Internationale Wohnrechtsorganisationen fordern eine grundsätzlichen Änderung der globalen Finanzarchichtektur und der Finanzierung lokaler Entwicklung
Aus Anlass des Finanz-Gipfels der G 20 in Washington erklären wir,
die unterzeichnenden Vereinigungen und Einzelpersonen,
- die dem Menschenrecht auf angemessene Wohn- und Lebensverhältnisse verflichtet sind,
- die seit langem ….
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November 13th, 2008 at %14:%Nov
Just would like to propose two more points, which I think should be stressed more in the future, especially when using the call for the european region:
* The significance of the construction sector in a anti-cyclical keynesian anti-crises-strategy: The construction sector, having a positive (or negative) impact on 37 economic sectors, is the best sector for a state-led intervention policy. The financing of projects - be it “green renewal”, social housing or infrastructure projects - should be done by state-controled banks like the german and austrian Raiffeisen or Sparkassen or the swiss Kantonalbanken.
* Alternative models to the private mortgage model or state-financed social housing should be supported: Besides social housing, alternative models like self-help-housing, mobile housing, collective use of empty houses etc. should be made possible by a corresponding legal framework. Collective construction, maintenance and administration models should be supported, empowering local social structures.
November 13th, 2008 at %14:%Nov
I support this declaration.
Mirco Theiner
executive secretary of the Union of Tenants Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany
November 13th, 2008 at %16:%Nov
I support this declaration,
Maite Cirugeda
translator
November 13th, 2008 at %17:%Nov
I support this declaration:
Andrej Holm, gentrificationblog.wordpress.com (Berlin/Frankfurt a.M., Germany)
November 13th, 2008 at %22:%Nov
This statement contains the essence of many solutions to wrong-headed policies and their depriving consequences. The current crisis–so grounded in faulty ideological models and assumptions–needs a “new deal” and, above all, a new mindset. Scrambling world leaders don’t need to pull it from the sky; it is here. http://www.hlrn.org
November 14th, 2008 at %01:%Nov
I support this declaration
But I think We are how affected
Of neo-liberal policies we must also
development our tools and methods of work
In the defense of our fundamental
It is unacceptable after today
To continue our life as Eternal victims
Mazen Darwich
Syria- Damascus
mazendar@hotmail.com
November 14th, 2008 at %09:%Nov
The Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem (ARIJ)endorses the declaration.
November 14th, 2008 at %12:%Nov
We support!
November 14th, 2008 at %14:%Nov
I support the statement.
It rightly requests attention to the importance of the housing and land sector in the international discussion on restructuring financial systems and alleviating the economic crisis.
November 14th, 2008 at %14:%Nov
Building and Housing Social Fundation supports this declaration!
November 14th, 2008 at %15:%Nov
Fantastic work. I support this declaration as well.
November 15th, 2008 at %16:%Nov
I support this declaration
Dr. Nassr H. Abbood
Manger of Al- Rafidain Center for Human Rights
Baghdad -Iraq
November 15,2008
November 15th, 2008 at %18:%Nov
I support this declaration!
November 16th, 2008 at %10:%Nov
Unsere BuergerBewegung - Die Bewegung fuer Buergerinitiative (DGI auf russisch) - ist einverstanden mit dieser Aufruf.
November 16th, 2008 at %14:%Nov
I welcome and support this declaration. I also wish to sign up to the declaration as an individual.
Barbra Kohlo, Harare
November 17th, 2008 at %01:%Nov
we support this declaration, but we must tray to find how we can find more tools and methods of our work in the land
November 17th, 2008 at %07:%Nov
We support the call and hope to hear positive response from concerned parties.
November 17th, 2008 at %17:%Nov
I support this declaration:
Thorben Wieditz (Toronto, Canada)
November 17th, 2008 at %18:%Nov
I deeply agree with all the terms of the declaration and I firmly sign it.
November 17th, 2008 at %18:%Nov
we support this declaration:
Ingrid Wagner,Freiburg /Germany +
Runder Tisch gegen ERwerbslosigkeit und soziale Ausgrenzung
BAG Prekäre Lebenslagen e.V. i.Gr.
November 17th, 2008 at %21:%Nov
I fully support. An injection of funding into public housing will meet need and create jobs.
bob colenutt
Institute for Urban Affairs
University of Northampton
November 17th, 2008 at %21:%Nov
I support the declaration
Stavros Stavrides
National Technical University of Athens
November 18th, 2008 at %00:%Nov
I support this declaration
Christy Petropoulou
School of Urban-Regional Planning and Development Engineering
Aristotle University of Thessaloniky
November 18th, 2008 at %08:%Nov
I support the declaration.
Marit Rosol, Germany
November 18th, 2008 at %11:%Nov
I support the petition. Please add me as an individual signatory. I am a planner / economist in University service.
November 18th, 2008 at %12:%Nov
I support the petition.
Researcher in urban studies at
Bauhaus Universitaet, Weimar.
November 18th, 2008 at %13:%Nov
I fully support this petition and every one of its terms.
This is a crisis regarding the most basic of human needs.
PhD Candidate in Urbanism, Bauhaus Univeritaet, Weimar
November 18th, 2008 at %16:%Nov
I fully support the petition from here in Oxford.
November 18th, 2008 at %16:%Nov
I support this declaration
Duncan Bowie
Reader in Urban Planning and Regeneration
London Metropolitan University
UK
November 18th, 2008 at %16:%Nov
I support this declaration
Ximena de la Barra
Chile/Spain
November 19th, 2008 at %02:%Nov
We support this declaration.
Bogotá-Colombia.
November 19th, 2008 at %11:%Nov
we support this declaration
Observatori Desc Barcelona-Spain
November 19th, 2008 at %11:%Nov
I support this declaration.
Istanbul/Turkey
November 19th, 2008 at %12:%Nov
I support the declaration.
November 19th, 2008 at %14:%Nov
I/We support the declaration and sign individually as an academic from Istanbul and institutionally as Solidarity Planning Studio (Dayanışmacı Planlama Atölyesi).
November 19th, 2008 at %14:%Nov
I/We support the declaration and sign individually as an academic and institutionally as Solidarity Planning Studio (Dayanışmacı Planlama Atölyesi) from Istanbul.
November 19th, 2008 at %17:%Nov
I would like to sign the statement.
Dr Claire Colomb
Lecturer in Planning, University College London
November 20th, 2008 at %16:%Nov
I support this declaration
Athens, Greece
November 23rd, 2008 at %21:%Nov
I support the declaration, and sign the statement
Massimo Pasquini
Unione Inquilini, Roma, Italy
November 25th, 2008 at %10:%Nov
I support this declaration and i sign it as an individually working architect.
Athens, Greece
November 26th, 2008 at %00:%Nov
I support the declaration.
Dr Kate Shaw
Research Fellow
University of Melbourne
December 8th, 2008 at %12:%Dec
Individual signature,
Comune di Venezia
December 8th, 2008 at %12:%Dec
Co.GES
Social enterprise
Venezia
December 20th, 2008 at %16:%Dec
late but hopefully not too late: I am with the campaign, affordable and sufficient shelter everywhere is the aim!
individual signature
Viktoria waltz
inura rhine ruhr Germany
January 28th, 2009 at %20:%Jan
Don’t know how I missed signing on to this important document, but hope it is not too late.
We are a 27 year old organization in Atlanta, Georgia, USA working to prevent and eliminate homelessness by urging housing, health care, education and liveable income for all.
February 2nd, 2009 at %17:%Feb
I support this declaration and sign it as an individual, a student of culture&literature from Istanbul, who is not able to afford himself to live in an adequate house due to the excessive rent and housing prices.
February 24th, 2009 at %18:%Feb
Adriana Auderset
I support this declaration
Geneva Switzerland
http://www.alistairmills.com/adriana
March 26th, 2009 at %17:%Mar
I sign to this declaration, a British civil servant who whilst doing what I can to help our nation can not afford adequate or proper housing.
April 10th, 2009 at %09:%Apr
I support the declaration.
Elisabeth August
Wuppertal, Germany
Member of the city council of Wuppertal
for the party The Left
April 10th, 2009 at %09:%Apr
Professionally I work at a tenants union. Adequate housing is a human right. Yet it isn’t safeguearded for many people. Still it is seen to be a private affair instead of a public matter.
elisabeth august
April 10th, 2009 at %11:%Apr
Already before the first financial crisis summit of G 20 in Washington we had been able to develop this call. It received quite a lot of support, still people are signing it.
Early in March - before the second G 20 meeting and related international action - I have sent a message to all available supporters, asking them if they think that our first call needs any important and urgent addition, correction or edition of it’s content. I received no responses
Thus, it seems to be accepted that this call further on can serve as a provisional international platform of habitat demands related to the daily deepening crisis.
Even personally I think the November document is still giving the right direction and it is already mentioning a lot of principal points.However: A couple of points could be discussed and more had to be deepened. The crisis is proceeding brutally and that could give reason for updates as well. Also, we can consider developments of housing movements reacting to the crisis at the ground, we have some developments on related analysis and we have all the natiobal and international state reactions.
If I look at the document again I think it would be helpful to build on it and start some process regarding
1 mapping housing and habitat consequences of the crisis in a couple of countries, so that we can proof what the crisis means for poor and ordinary people
2 mapping and commenting on current government rescue and stimulation programs in order to understand that process better from an international point of view and in order to identify possible concrete demands and entrance points for targeted advocacy and lobbying
3 organizing overviews on habitat related peoples’ campaigns and practices as a response to the crisis, like squats of foreclosed houses ..
4 organizing some critical overview on the crisis management proposals and measurements discussed i.e. by the G 20 and the EU. You will find that there hardly is anything in it which directly relates to land and habitat. Given the prominent role real estate speculation had played and is playing in this game this could be reason enough to raise our voice.
But we even had to understand indirect consequences of their measurements.
Last but not least we should try to proceed from general reflection & local reaction to targeted campaigns and transnational action.
Knut Unger
reclaiming spaces coordinator
July 23rd, 2009 at %23:%Jul
I support the declaration. Decent housing for all should be a right across the globe.
Corinne Nativel
Lecturer (France)
July 24th, 2009 at %23:%Jul
I sign and support this declaration. I am a visual artist living and working in Istanbul.
July 26th, 2009 at %10:%Jul
I strongly support that declaration.
I work at a tenants union at Wuppertal , Germany . Lots of houses are selled to international investors. Amongs those, which once were built with public financial means. On the other hand programs to build new public financed houses are hardly found any more.
Housing will increasingly become an expensive good, which people cannot afford
any more.
July 26th 2009
September 7th, 2009 at %09:%Sep
I strongly support the declaration on behalf of Save Our Streets campaign, Carlisle. I became aware of the much bigger civil rights issues after campaigning to save the homes in my community.
September 23rd, 2009 at %17:%Sep
I strongly support this declaration.
January 13th, 2010 at %09:%Jan
I fully support this declaration!
May 6th, 2010 at %15:%May
As the Secretary of a housing co-op I fully support the declaration.