Crise financeira

Special Rapporteur participates in debates on social housing in Belgium

Published in Saturday July 27th, 2013 In News

The Special Rapporteur attended events on social housing in Europe on June. Find out more about it here.

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Spain Top Court Freezes Andalusia Anti-Eviction Decree

Published in Friday July 12th, 2013 In In the media

Spain’s constitutional court has suspended a regional decree that makes it harder for banks to conduct evictions and penalizes lenders and real-estate firms for holding vacant properties, a spokeswoman for the government of Andalusia said Thursday.

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Spain Suspends Anti-eviction Measures

Published in Friday July 12th, 2013 In In the media

Spain’s Constitutional Court on Thursday suspended the use of measures aimed at preventing banks from evicting mortgage defaulters from their homes until it makes a final ruling on the matter.

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Financial crises should not become human rights crises

Published in Wednesday July 10th, 2013 In Opinion

The financial crisis in itself is not what we all are concerned about. In fact, we could make the case that crises are just inherent to capitalism. The problem began when the financial crisis turned into a human rights crisis. We must pay try to understand and respond to the material and ideological underpinnings of this transformation.

Financial Crisis Just a Symptom of Detroit’s Woes

Published in Wednesday July 10th, 2013 In In the media

As officials negotiate urgently with creditors and unions in a last-ditch effort to spare Detroit from plunging into the largest municipal bankruptcy in the nation’s history, residents say the city has worse problems than its estimated $18 billion debt.

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Group says foreclosure crisis still alive in West Seattle

Published in Thursday July 4th, 2013 In In the media

“Foreclosure isn’t a sexy topic anymore and the media doesn’t really want to talk about it anymore,” Johnson said. “They think the economy is fixing itself, and everything is getting sorted out and everybody is getting better and let’s all pretend this isn’t happening.”

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Cooperative housing facing the financial and housing crises

Published in Thursday June 6th, 2013 In Social movement news

Faced with the growing power of real estate speculation at international level, whose effects have been felt particularly in the USA and a good number of European countries, particularly in Southern Europe, the international meetings in Lyon, France (UCLy- 5 July 2013), propose to make a start on developing a comparison (and not an opposition) between the Latin and Anglo-Saxon models arising from social cooperation and their application in the area of affordable housing: the “Community Land Trust” representing the Anglo-Saxon model and “Latin cooperatives” of inhabitants as the Latin model.

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The Death and Life of Chicago

Published in Tuesday June 4th, 2013 In In the media

On a 100-degree day last summer, on Chicago’s southernmost edge, Willie Fleming, who goes by J. R. (“It stands for Just Righteousness”), crept up to an abandoned ranch house shrouded in overgrown weeds. The overwhelmingly poor and black neighborhood sits beside a 150-acre, 1,500-unit public-housing complex and is about as far — literally and figuratively — from the Loop as you can get and still be in Chicago. Nearly a quarter of the homes in the area had been empty for at least two years.

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10,000 families in Wales subjected to repossession or eviction claims in last year

Published in Monday May 27th, 2013 In In the media

A charity branded the figure “shocking” and the Welsh Government said it was “very concerned” at the effect UK Government welfare reforms and current economic conditions were having on people in Wales. In total, 3,806 claims were started by banks against mortgagees in Wales in 2012/3. Of these, 1,355 ended in bailiffs removing homeowners.

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New York claims more proof of bank mortgage abuses

Published in Monday May 27th, 2013 In In the media

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said there is mounting evidence that Bank of America Corp (BAC.N), Wells Fargo and Co (WFC.N) and other banks violated the terms of a settlement designed to end mortgage servicing abuses. Schneiderman – who has said he plans to sue Bank of America and Wells Fargo for failing to live up to their obligations under the deal – said other states had found similar problems.

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