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

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