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With $200 Million in U.S. Housing Aid, Officials Begin Relocating the Displaced

Published in Tuesday November 6th, 2012 In In the media

November 05, 2012 Officials said they were working on Monday to provide temporary housing for people displaced by Hurricane Sandy despite confusion and conflicting accounts of how many needed places to live. “We don’t really know yet, in truth,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said at a briefing, adding that the estimates ranged from 10,000 to 40,000 […]

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Protesters in Cambodia Want Obama’s Support Over Evictions

Published in Tuesday November 6th, 2012 In In the media

November 06, 2012 About 100 residents embroiled in land disputes in Phnom Penh submitted a petition to the U.S. Embassy yesterday requesting that President Barack Obama raise the issue of evictions and reform of the country’s land concession policy when he visits Cambodia later this month. The plea comes on the heels of a resolution […]

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Priced out? The housing prices dividing London

Published in Tuesday November 6th, 2012 In In the media

November 06, 2012 Can a new council house scheme aimed at middle income families help to solve the housing crisis in London? And will it preserve the mixed communities the capital is famous for, or increase polarization? London boasts some of the highest-value real estate in the world. Since the onset of the economic crisis, […]

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“Financial credit for homeownership is not an adequate solution for the world’s poor”, says UN expert on housing

Published in Tuesday November 6th, 2012 In News on the Rapporteurs

Financial markets have taken over the housing sector, resulting in a detrimental effect on the enjoyment of the right to adequate housing, especially for the poor, UN Special Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik said today, urging governments to adopt broader policies and interventions for the housing sector.

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Evicted families sleep in front of Bankia in Madrid

Published in Monday November 5th, 2012 In In the media

November 3rd, 2012 It’s been two weeks since over 50 families decided to protest day and night in front of the banks main offices, with rain, cold weather and a lot of patience. Their only hope is that Bankia negotiates with them a pay in kind and a social rent in order to continue living […]

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UN relief agency estimates 1.8 million Haitians have been affected by Hurricane Sandy

Published in Monday November 5th, 2012 In In the media

November 2nd, 2012 Some 1.8 million Haitians have been affected by Hurricane Sandy, the United Nations relief agency said today after its first assessment of the situation in the region, adding that food security remains an urgent concern in the Caribbean nation. Initial data collected by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs […]

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Housing Nightmare Looms in Wake of Storm in New York

Published in Monday November 5th, 2012 In In the media

November 04, 2012 New York City officials said on Sunday that they faced the daunting challenge of finding homes for as many as 40,000 people who were left homeless after the devastation of last week’s storm, a situation that the city’s mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, compared to New Orleans’s after Hurricane Katrina. The mayor said that […]

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Land Reform in South Africa: An Unfulfilled Obligation

Published in Monday November 5th, 2012 In Opinion

November 1st, 2012 by Glenn Ashton The question of land and agricultural reform in South Africa remains largely unresolved as we head towards the end of our second decade of democracy. It is remarkable that a democratically elected government, enjoying such an overwhelming parliamentary majority and popular support, has failed so spectacularly, in such an […]

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Construction and Forced Evictions Mark Olympic Showcase in Russia

Published in Monday November 5th, 2012 In In the media

Hotels, sports facilities and general improvements are under construction in the city, and work is going on in the mountains above Sochi where other events will be held. This means upheaval for some residents. The cost of resettling 1,500 families in the path of the bulldozers has been borne by the government of the relatively wealthy Krasnodar region in which Sochi lies.

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Homeless families to be expelled from London by councils

Published in Monday November 5th, 2012 In News

November 04, 2012 Survey reveals councils acquiring properties across the UK for vulnerable families due to welfare cuts and high London rents Local authorities in London are preparing to send thousands of homeless families to live in temporary homes outside the capital, in defiance of ministerial demands that people should continue to be housed locally. Councils […]