News

China gambles on affordable housing

Published in Friday April 27th, 2012 In In the media

April 26, 2012 The Beijing Star Brand Building Materials West Factory has been demolished, and in its place is a construction pit crawling with dump trucks as cranes tower above. This is the future home of the Taiheyuan Affordable Housing Project, which will have grocery stores, restaurants, and 2,400 apartments for factory hands and other […]

Tags ,

Serbia: Hundreds of families face uncertainty after Belvil eviction

Published in Thursday April 26th, 2012 In Social movement news

(Português) Belgrade city authorities are proceeding with a mass forced eviction on Thursday in the capital’s Belvil’s settlement despite failing to consult the Roma communities affected, denying them adequate information, notice and legal remedies, Amnesty International said. The lack of consultation has meant that some of the 250 families may have been split up while others now face homelessness.

Tags , ,

Free webinar on the rise of tent cities in the United States

Published in Thursday April 26th, 2012 In Mobilisation and agenda

April 26ht, 2012 FREE WEBINAR Welcome Home: The Rise of Tent Cities in the United States Wednesday, May 2, 2012 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. EDT On Wednesday, May 2, the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty will be hosting a free webinar previewing its upcoming report, “Welcome Home: The Rise of Tent Cities […]

Tags ,

A Spanish Drama: Homeless in Debt and in the Street

Published in Thursday April 26th, 2012 In In the media

April 25th, 2012 by Eduardo Rodríguez-Baz After unemployment, and closely linked to it, evictions have become the most horrific aspect of the economic crisis in Spain, accelerating the rise in levels of poverty and social exclusion. The evictions of both house-owners and tenants in debt reached a historic level last year, with an increase of […]

Tags , , ,

Housing solution for the next natural disaster? (USA)

Published in Wednesday April 25th, 2012 In In the media

April 21st, 2012 In one of the neighborhoods hit hardest by flooding in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath, developers have built a prototype house that’s aimed at providing a quick housing solution for areas blown away by hurricanes and tornadoes or knocked down by earthquakes. The dwelling in the Lakeview section of New Orleans is somewhat box-like, […]

Tags , ,

Vietnam detains 20 following mass land eviction

Published in Wednesday April 25th, 2012 In In the media

April 25th, 2012 Authorities in northern Vietnam have detained 20 people after thousands of police evicted farmers from their land to make way for a satellite city, witnesses and state media said Wednesday. More than 1,000 villagers were overpowered by some 3,000 police and militiamen, many of them in full riot gear, during Tuesday’s incident, […]

Tags , , ,

New law to reduce housing discrimination (USA)

Published in Wednesday April 25th, 2012 In In the media

April 23rd, 2012 Franklin County and Columbus officials said Monday that they were partnering with the Columbus Urban League to prevent housing discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. City and county leaders held the first of several strategy meetings to take aim at the discrimination, 10TV’s Ashleigh Barry reported. A new federal law […]

Tags ,

Utah needs fair housing (USA)

Published in Wednesday April 25th, 2012 In In the media

April 20th, 2012 The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development defines “fair housing” as “all Americans hav[ing] equal access to the housing of their choice.” Sadly, especially for persons with disabilities, there is still a long way to go to realize this goal. The Fair Housing Amendments Act requires housing providers to make reasonable […]

Tags ,

How the build-up to the World Cup and Olympics is affecting Rio’s favelas

Published in Tuesday April 24th, 2012 In News

Brazil is gearing up for the next World Cup and Olympics – but the country’s poorest say they are being swept aside in a tidal wave of forced evictions and human rights abuses in shanty towns known as favelas. And they say nobody is listening.

Turkish law on transformation of areas under disaster risk

Published in Tuesday April 24th, 2012 In Social movement news

April 24th, 2012 Members of the Turkish civil society contacted the Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing to inform about a draft law currently under discussion in the Parliament that is generating some discussion and polemics in the country. The draft deals with transformation of areas under disaster risks. What concerns the civil society is that […]

Tags , ,