Crise financeira

Canada needs a rental housing plan

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

May 28, 2012 Jobs will go unfilled if people don’t have affordable places to live that are close to work and transit On May 15, the City of Vancouver council approved the Secured Rental Housing Policy. Part of the City’s Housing and Homelessness Strategy, this new city policy outlines a package of incentives for property […]

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Affordable housing growing scarce in US

Published in Friday May 25th, 2012 In In the media

May 24, 2012 Housing advocates say affordable housing is growing scarce in the United States with fewer people able to own their own homes and rents rising. Paola Nunez, is a childcare worker in Washington.  Until recently, she lived with her mother.  But she decided it was time to move out and get her own […]

Housing Finance for the poor is the subject of the next thematic report – Newsletter #21

Published in Monday May 21st, 2012


From July 5th to 13th, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing Raquel Rolnik will have an official visit to Rwanda. Currently, the Rapporteur is working on the elaboration of a new thematic report, which will focus the ways the finance system has been linked to the housing market in order to provide housing to low-income families.

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Questionnaire on Housing financing for the poor

Published in Friday May 18th, 2012

In her forthcoming report, to be submitted to the UN General Assembly at its 67th session, in October, the Special Rapporteur will continue her previous work, by examining national policies promoting access to homeownership and affordable housing for the poorest segments of society or other marginalized groups. The report will focus on policies and programmes which aim to promote access to adequate housing for the poor.

Protesters in Chicago target evictions, foreclosures (USA)

Published in Thursday May 17th, 2012 In In the media

May 16, 2012 About 150 protesters in Chicago marched to banks and government offices on Wednesday to demand a one-year moratorium on local home evictions and foreclosures, the latest in a series of demonstrations leading up to next week’s NATO summit. The protesters performed a piece of street theater at Daley Plaza featuring a bank trying […]

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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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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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With affordable housing endangered, neighborhoods turn to land trusts (USA)

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

April 27, 2012 For 30 years, community organizations in the city have fought rising land prices to maintain affordable housing in their neighborhoods, often by buying, rehabbing and renting out one house at a time. Today, however, suitable houses are becoming scarce, so neighborhood activists are turning to instruments known as community land trusts. Promoted […]

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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 […]

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