RECLAIMING SPACES

Historic meeting! All 4 rapporteurs on housing together celebrating 20 years of the HRC housing mandate and HLRN in India! Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

"There's just always a basic conflict of interests between the commitments of a share-oriented company to make profits for the shareholders and the needs of tenants, who just want an affordable home and to be left alone." m.dw.com/en/berlin-gent… Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

People living in #homelessness face severe risks to their lives & heath from inadequate living conditions, extreme weather, & #COVID19 & related loss of livelihoods, income, food. Watch this woman in Delhi speaking of the hardships of life without a home. #WorldHomelessDay2020 Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

#Homelessness among children and families has increased across Europe over the last 10 years. When families are forced into emergency/temporary #accommodation the human right to respect for private and family life is violated. #WorldHomelessDay #childhomelessness Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

Sheffield workers shouldn't have to choose between self-isolating and paying the rent. They need living wage sick pay. Sign the petition! twitter.com/SheffPayRise/s… Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

Happening now> The first large demonstration for the access to adequate and affordable housing in #Luxemburg. #HousingNotProfit twitter.com/MieterschutzL/… Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

Berlin Liebig 34 squat: German police evict dozens - A lawyer for the squatters told AFP news agency: "It goes against human rights to throw people out on to the street in the middle of a pandemic, when they cannot pay their rents." bbc.com/news/world-eur… Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

Homelessness among #migrants has reached unprecedented levels in Europe. #Asylumseekers are detained in inadequate accommodation which has dire impacts on health and safety, as seen in #Moria. Urgent action is needed to ensure the wellbeing of migrants. #WorldHomelessDay Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

#WorldHomelessDay: #HLRN is proud to be a part of the #GlobalHomelessnessAction with partners from around the world. We have come together to urge states to guarantee the #Right2Housing of persons living in homelessness & to #EndHomelessness. See: bit.ly/34M1DIW twitter.com/Make_TheShift/… Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

🧐What has changed in the way we are approaching #housingrights? 📢@raquelrolnik "The change is in the level of the civil society. Emergence of a new wave and new generation of #housing movements (Europe, US.) 🟠This is what can bring change to housing rights. #UrbanOctober Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

🗨️ @SilviMex @HIC_AL sobre la Producción Social del Hábitat. Una alternativa y viable frente al mercado de la vivienda que contempla la participación de los habitantes Una perspectiva utópica en un sistema capitalista, pero donde premia el espiritu colectivo #HousingRights Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

Listening now to the @BCN_CiutatDrets #housingrights plan: the implementing from te ground up. Great explanation from @CabreEduard, some of the axis : 1. Preventing housing emergency 2. An attempt to guarantee the social function 3. Partners within social housing developers Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

"Dass der Räumung nichts entgegengesetzt werden konnte, ist Ausdruck der politischen und gesellschaftlichen Handlungsunfähigkeit in einem privatwirtschaftlichem Wohnungsmarkt." 1/4 taz.de/Raeumung-der-L… Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

Die mäßige Beteiligung an den Protesten gegen die #Liebig34-Räumung sollte den Blick auf die Erfolge der Mieterbewegung nicht verwischen. Die Niederlagen im Kampf um linke Räume erzählen viel über die Verschiebungen der gesellschaftlichen Widersprüche im heutigen Berlin Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

🗣️Mais de 80K pessoas estão ameaçadas de despejo no Brasil ‼️Durante a pandemia, mas de 20K já foram removidas ✍️@rodofaria @institutopolis @Right2CityGP aponto as medidas que devem ser tomadas com urgência #DespejoZero #ZeroEvictions #DesalojoCero #WorldHabitatDay #UrbanOctober Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

To commemorate #WorldHomelessDay , and one year of our 'Campaign on #AdequateHousing for the #Homeless', #HLRN is organizing a virtual public meeting and consultation tomorrow with people living in homelessness in Delhi. #EndHomelessness #UrbanOctober #SDG11 Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

Today the 40 inhabitants of #Liebig34, in #Berlin Friedrichshain were evicted through a massive police operation. The city supports the speculator #Padovicz instead of its own free spaces and history. #StopEvictions twitter.com/BuendnisZRV/st… Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

Newham & Leytonstone branch members are sending a message to our member G’s landlord today: stop the harassment and the eviction threats. Our community of renters has each others backs. When we come together we have the power to stop evictions! #EvictionResistance #RenterPower Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

🔜Join us tomorrow in a dynamic discussion about "looking back" at where we have come from and "forward" at how we are responding to the current context by defending and producing #HousingRights 👇Here's a thread on the wide array of speakers who will accompany us #UrbanOctober Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces

Rassemblement cet après midi devant l'Ambassade d'Allemagne à Paris en solidarité avec les habitantEs de #Liebig34 menacéEs d'expulsion imminente à #Berlin ! Non aux expulsions partout dans le monde! Soutien au mouvement berlinois #Mietenwahnsinn ! twitter.com/Mietenwahnsinn… Retweeted by reclaiming_spaces