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Nigeria: Human Rights Commission to Investigate Demolitions

Published in Wednesday August 8th, 2012 In In the media

August 7, 2012 The National Human Rights Commission has vowed to investigate the recent demolition of human settlements in different parts of the country by federal or state authorities. Hundreds of thousands of residents were displaced at the Waterside in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Mpape in the Federal Capital Territory and Makoko in the Lagos […]

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200,000 relocated in Shanghai as typhoon Haikui nears

Published in Wednesday August 8th, 2012 In In the media

August 7, 2012 China’s commercial hub of Shanghai was rushing to relocate people in order to avoid risks posed by the approaching severe typhoon Haikui, officials with the municipal flood control headquarters said Tuesday. It was estimated that over 200,000 people threatened by typhoon Haikui would be relocated before 9 p.m. Tuesday, said Zhang Zhenyu, […]

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Haiti – Reconstruction : Presentation of the Strategic Development Plan of Haiti to ECOSOC

Published in Tuesday August 7th, 2012 In In the media

August 6, 2012 The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), that held end of July in New York, its annual substantive session for 2012, discussed on the situation in Haiti, with Ms. Josépha Raymond Gauthier, the Haitian Minister of Planning and External Cooperation. During this meeting, Ms. Gauthier presented the progress made in the […]

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In China, Zhouqu mudslide victims to move into new homes

Published in Monday August 6th, 2012 In In the media

August 6, 2012 The 2,700 families who lost their homes in a devastating mudslide that claimed more than 1,500 lives two years ago in Northwest China’s Gansu province will move into new apartments by the end of the year, local authorities said. A total of 3,580 apartments have been distributed to the families, said Yi […]

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In Namibia, housing the urban poor is crucial

Published in Monday August 6th, 2012 In In the media

August 3rd, 2012 Any formal process of addressing the acute shortage of housing will be a failure because the majority in need of housing are the poor, whose incomes do not allow them to purchase houses through banks, from individuals or property developers. This was the view of Dr. Anna Muller of the Namibia Housing […]

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Affordable housing projects get state financial boost in the US

Published in Monday August 6th, 2012 In In the media

August 3rd, 2012 by Claire Bessette Several local projects, including a planned conversion of the historic Ponemah Mill in Norwich, will receive state grants or loans in a major affordable housing investment announced Thursday by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. The Lofts at Ponemah Mills, a 116-unit project at the Taftville mill, was awarded $3 million […]

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Czech Republic: Roma families at imminent risk of forced eviction

Published in Monday August 6th, 2012 In Social movement news

August 3rd, 2012 Dozens of Roma families living in rental accommodation in the north-eastern Czech town of Ostrava face being forcibly evicted over the weekend, Amnesty International and European Roma Rights Centre said as they requested local authorities to explore all feasible alternatives first. On Friday morning the head of Ostrava’s construction office delivered an eviction […]

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Roma refuse to leave their Ostrava homes in Czech Republic

Published in Monday August 6th, 2012 In In the media

August 5, 2012 Around 140 people, primarily Czech Romanies, still remain in the shanty town Prednadrazi in Ostrava-Privoz they were ordered to leave by the planning and building authority yesterday. There are many children among the people. Locals are trying to partly repair the houses and they want the office to change its decision, local […]

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In Nigeria, flood displaces 100 persons in Nguru

Published in Monday August 6th, 2012 In In the media

August 6, 2012 Over 100 people were displaced yesterday after a heavy downpour that destroyed more than 50 houses in different locations in Nguru town of Yobe State. Daily Trust gathered that the rainfall, which started around 1pm and lasted more than four hours, destroyed many buildings at Bulaburin, Tsohuwar Nguru and Unguwar Kanuri areas […]

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London 2012: affordable housing sidelined in Olympic regeneration

Published in Monday August 6th, 2012 In News

(Português) Since 2009, planning deals in the Olympic area in east London have shown little commitment to regeneration and local needs. As London prepares to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the government has once again announced new plans to boost infrastructure spending to kickstart our sluggish economy. The whole London 2012 project is based on […]

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