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The Hungarian Organization “The City is for all” and the “European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and the City” called for three days of international solidarity action against the criminalization of homelessness by the Hungarian government. Local groups in 15 cities organized protests between 13th and 15th February 2014. […] What does a public space mean? Currently, public spaces such as ports, parks, shores, squares, green areas, shortly spaces that should be open to the free access of the public have been commercialized, privatized by central and/or local governments which no longer act to manage but to sell their cities just like entrepreneurs. Wilderness, […] 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 […] 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 […] Webpage: http://avarosmindenkie.blog.hu The members of A Város Mindenkié (The City is for All) are homeless and formerly homeless people, those struggling with housing problems and their allies, who all work together for an egalitarian and just society. Our group is based on voluntary work and provides an opportunity for homeless people to stand up […] |
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 
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 |
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