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Slum dwellers live in fear of eviction in Saudi Arabia

Published in Monday November 12th, 2012 In In the media

November 12, 2012 Close to Makkah’s Grand Mosque and the glitzy 5-star hotels surrounding it lie slums whose mostly immigrant dwellers fear they will be evicted to make way for new high rises and malls. In one such slum on Jabal (mount) Omar, humans, cats, lizards, and mosquitoes co-exist among piles of garbage, with sewage […]

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U.S. Asks New York Landlords for Vacant Apartments to House Displaced Families

Published in Monday November 12th, 2012 In In the media

November 11, 2012 City, state and federal officials are trying to assemble a pool of vacant apartments in New York City that could supplement the city’s shelter system in housing hundreds if not thousands of families displaced by storm damage and power outages. Although many people have clung to their homes despite having neither heat nor […]

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More than 12,000 displaced due to rains in northern Dominican Republic

Published in Monday November 12th, 2012 In In the media

November 12, 2012 Dominican emergency authorities reported yesterday that 12,365 people have been forced from their homes and more than 3,000 houses have been destroyed in flooding from intense rains across the northern part of the country over the past three days. The Emergency Operations Center, or COE, said in a communique that it decreed […]

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‘Deserving’ families to get council housing priority in the UK

Published in Monday November 12th, 2012 In In the media

November 9, 2012 Homeless families will be rehoused to free up social homes for ex-servicemen and people who volunteer Working families, ex-servicemen and people who volunteer will get priority in council housing lists over those who are homeless or destitute under new Whitehall plans. Vulnerable homeless families will be rehoused in the private rented sector, often […]

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Bulldozers clear the way in Russia’s Olympics showcase

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

November 05, 2012 The workers arrived at Sergei Khlystov’s gate on a Friday evening to bulldoze his home and clear a path for sewage pipes to the Olympic village being built in the Russian city of Sochi. Khlystov and his 33-year-old son-in-law, Maxim Samokhval, at first tried to block the bulldozers but then stood aside and […]

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For many, D.C. housing waiting list offers little more than hope

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

November 04, 2012 Ceola Lewis has been waiting a long time. In 1975, Lewis signed up for the District’s Housing Choice Voucher Program, which used to be known as Section 8. At the time, she was 19, living with her mother and working a string of low-wage jobs to provide for herself and her newborn daughter. […]

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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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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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