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France Evicts Over 21 Thousand Roma Migrants in 2013

French authorities evicted more than 21 537 Roma migrants in 2013, more than double the total for 2012, official data showed. In comparison, some 9 404 Roma were forcibly evicted in 2012 and 8 455 in 2011, according to data provided by the same organizations.

France deports record number of Roma

France forcibly evicted a record 19,380 Roma migrants in 2013 — more than double the figure from the previous year — two rights groups said in a joint report released Tuesday. The France-based Human Rights League (LDH) and the Hungary-based European Roma Rights Center (ERRC) said the number was a startling increase from the 9,404 Roma evicted in 2012 and the 8,455 evicted in 2011.

Tent City in Central African Republic Swells as Violence Grips Capital

It has rematerialized in a makeshift town by the airport at the edge of the real city. Almost anything can be bought in muddy paths of the impromptu market that has sprung up: flip-flops, dried fish, a haircut, yams, baguettes, gasoline, cheap handbags, okra, coffee, eggs, manioc fritters, clothes custom made by tailors sitting at old sewing machines. More than 100,000 people have moved to this rough, chaotic tent city in less than a month. In all, two-thirds of Bangui has picked up and moved, according to the United Nations.

World Cup preparation means eviction for several Brazilian residents

At dusk, just a few days before Christmas, Veronica Maria da Silva, her husband and her brother-in-law were taking the last valuables they could out of their homes in their neighborhood of São Francisco near the city of Camaragibe. Windows and doors can be reused, but only if they’re saved before the demolition crew arrives. So the family pulled them out of the walls, leaving ragged holes behind with piles of loose brick and tile spilled over the floors.

Eminent Domain: A Long Shot Against Blight

Ms. McLaughlin has a plan to help the many Richmond residents who owe more money on their houses than their houses are worth, but it’s one that banks like Wells Fargo, large asset managers like Pimco and BlackRock, real estate interests and even Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance giants, have tried to quash. Her idea involves a novel use of the power of eminent domain to bail out homeowners by buying up and then forgiving mortgage debt.

4 years after earthquake, Haiti reconstruction is haphazard

Canaan has become a squatters’ paradise of mushrooming construction of makeshift shacks and concrete homes, with quake victims, land speculators and ordinary Haitians seeking opportunities.

Philippines typhoon rebuilding may cost 50 pct more this year than estimated

The cost of typhoon reconstruction this year could reach 138 billion pesos ($3.1 billion), more than 50 percent higher than initially estimated, as the Philippines seeks to build back better and put in safeguards for future disasters, the budget secretary said on Thursday.

Families Flee From Marakwet Forests Ahead of Police Evictions

January 08, 2013 by Mathews Ndanyi Hundreds of families are fleeing from Embobut forest in Marakwet where the government has deployed police to evict more than 15,000 squatters. Some of the families they feared the government would use excessive force to evict them from the forests following the expiry of a 21 days notice issued […]

EU migrants to be helped find homes by assigned housing officer in Aberdeen

The city council has revealed that 18.5 per cent of housing applications are from the migrant worker community and councillors believe migrants have not been given the same level of information and advice about entitlement to local authority housing since the city council stopped funding the project three years ago.

Eviction threats remain for vulnerable displaced people

Since mid-2013 tens of thousands of internally displaced people living in formal and in-formal settlements in Mogadishu have been forced to move to makeshift settlements north of the city, Kilometre 7 to 13.