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In the UK, housing crisis deepens

Published in Wednesday June 13th, 2012 In Opinion

June 12, 2012 by Mark Easton The desperate shortage of affordable homes in England appears to be worsening, following Tuesday’s publication of national housing statistics. The Homes and Communities Agency has announced that the number of “affordable housing starts” for 2011-2012 was just 15,698 – a 68% fall on the previous year. The Housing Minister […]

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Implement the Law in Ireland!

Published in Monday June 4th, 2012 In Mobilisation and agenda

Equality Can’t Wait – Implement the Law! Last week the Minister for Social Development announced plans to regenerate the Girdwood Barracks site in North Belfast. North Belfast has seen some of the most acute and longstanding housing inequality in Northern Ireland. The Northern Ireland Housing Executive’s own research shows that 95% of the need for new social […]

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Crisis draws squatter to Spain’s empty buildings

Published in Monday May 28th, 2012 In In the media

May 28, 2012 Sleeping on inflatable mattresses with just a few boxes to hold their belongings, 32 families have occupied an empty new apartment block in Seville in southern Spain to put a roof over their heads after being thrown out of their own homes. They share a single cooker and a cheap brown sofa […]

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Athens 2004 Olympics: what happened after the athletes went home?

Published in Tuesday May 15th, 2012 In In the media

As the flame for the London Olympics is kindled in Greece, Helena Smith looks at the legacy of the 2004 Games In the soft Attic light, Athens’s Olympic sports complex does not look like such a bad place. Men and women jog gently under its great steel arches, athletes go in and out of its […]

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Taking Spain’s austerity measures to task at the United Nations

Published in Friday May 11th, 2012 In Social movement news

May 11, 2012 On the occasion of the Spain’s first appearance in eight years before the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, CESR together with a coalition of 18 Spanish NGOs has presented a parallel report comprising detailed evidence of retrogressions in human rights due to austerity measures. This document was complemented by […]

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Landlords ‘evicting tenants’ to make Olympic profit

Published in Tuesday May 8th, 2012 In In the media

Tenants in east London are being evicted from their homes as landlords attempt to cash in on the Olympics, BBC News has learned. The housing charity Shelter says it has seen more evidence of landlords acting unscrupulously and evicting people illegally. One estate agent said properties typically rented for £350 per week were being marketed […]

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Facing eviction, Abuela chains herself to bank (Spain)

Published in Monday May 7th, 2012 In News

May 5, 2012 A 76-year-old grandmother who lost her home to debt chained herself to the gate of Spain’s central bank here Monday and asked Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to address the “injustices” affecting many people in the Iberian nation. Angeles Belmonte was evicted five months ago from her home in the southern town of […]

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Spanish homeowners rally together to fight evictions by banks

Published in Wednesday May 2nd, 2012 In In the media

May 2nd, 2012 Residents in a quiet suburb of Barcelona are taking the fight against the financial sector to the judiciary as they attempt to save a family from being evicted from their home, in a case that has become a powerful symbol of Spain’s five-year economic crisis. At 9.30am in the district of Santa […]

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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.

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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 […]

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