Nice, March 11 2014, 10:20 h. After some negotiations with local authorities the “tribunal” against the Mipim now can take place at Marché Forville in the center of Cannes.
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Initiated by Hungarian homeless advocacy group The City is for All, local groups in 9 countries are organizing solidarity events to protest against the criminalization of homelessness in Hungary. The persecution of homeless people is in violation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the European Convention on Human Rights, and […] “Being homeless is not a crime!” “The City is for All” (Budapest) invites the friends all over the world to join the struggle against the criminalisation of homelessness in Hungary by action between Feb, 13th and Feb. 15th. The European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and the City supports the call. […] On November 14, 2013 the General Assembly of Budapest passed a local law that designated the majority of Budapest as an area where engaging in “habitual residence in public space” is an infraction punishable by community work, fine and ultimately jail. In this way, street homelessness has become criminalized in the capital of Hungary […] The homeless activists of The City is for All and their allies were holding hands, telling poems and singing around the chairs of the Budapest City Council members in the council’s assembly room at 8.15am on Thursday, November 14th. The group’s aim was to prevent the assembly from passing an ordinance, which extends the […] |
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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