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The Urban Social Forum opens in Naples with a field visit from the UN Special Rapporteur

Published in Monday September 10th, 2012 In Social movement news

Naples gave a warm welcome to the second Urban Social Forum (USF). The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing accompanied a USF delegation to the popular neighbourhood Scampia, where she held a reunion with social organizations and the inhabitants of the Giugliano roma camp, who live under an eviction order threat.

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UN stresses positives of urban growth with new tool to track city prosperity

Published in Thursday September 6th, 2012 In In the media

September 05, 2012 Cities should be seen as drivers of economic growth and human development, says report published at World Urban Forum A new index to measure and track the prosperity of cities has been unveiled by UN-Habitat, the UN human settlements programme, in a bid to encourage a more upbeat view of the world’s […]

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Squatting set to become a criminal offence in the UK

Published in Monday September 3rd, 2012 In In the media

August 31st, 2012 Squatting in a residential building in England and Wales becomes a criminal offence on Saturday, meaning squatters would face jail or a fine. Ministers said it would offer better protection for homeowners and “slam shut the door on squatters once and for all”. The maximum penalty will be six months in jail, a […]

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An Englishman’s castle: social housing in Britain

Published in Thursday August 30th, 2012 In In the media

August 25, 2012 Britain desperately needs more homes IN A city overflowing with people, the Heygate estate, near Elephant and Castle in south London, is an eerie place. Most of the flats lie empty, the windows and doors shuttered with metal plates. Concrete walkways, once intended as “streets in the sky”, extend uselessly into open […]

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In Kenya, it’s necessary to protect the poor against land grabbers

Published in Friday August 24th, 2012 In In the media

August 23rd, 2012 Manyatta MP Emilio Kathuri yesterday asked Embu courts to protect the poor against rich people who have been grabbing their pieces land. Kathuri said it has become a common occurrence in Embu for the wealthy to irregularly acquire land belonging to the poor. He lamented that when the matters move to the […]

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In England, this is how we can solve the housing crisis – one home at a time

Published in Tuesday August 14th, 2012 In In the media

August 13, 2012 Liverpool’s Homebaked community land trust is a model for local rebuilding in the wake of failed regeneration projects Directly in front of north Liverpool’s Homebaked community land trust sits Anfield stadium; behind it lies a ladder of tinned-up houses and several acres of rubble. Market triumph dominates one side of the road while […]

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Repair New York City’s Housing Issues

Published in Tuesday August 14th, 2012 In In the media

August 13, 2012 More than 650,000 people live in housing that is controlled or subsidized by the New York City Housing Authority. Too many have to wait for months for needed repairs to leaking plumbing and other problems. In an estimated 10,000 apartments, repairs are not scheduled until 2014. This is clearly unacceptable. The question is […]

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Beijing’s rooms with no view

Published in Monday August 13th, 2012 In In the media

August 10, 2012 By Simon Rabinovitch Sim Chi Yin’s photographs explore beneath the streets of the city, where China’s low-income workers squash into tiny living spaces The man looking after the tiny one-room apartments in the basement of the Beijing high rise was nervous. “The outside world doesn’t need to know about this. It will […]

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An Urgent Need for Urban Law Reform in Africa

Published in Wednesday August 8th, 2012 In Social movement news

August 7, 2012 There is an urgent need to promote urban law reform in Sub-Saharan Africa if the continent’s rapidly growing cities are to fulfill their potential for economic growth. This was the key message that emerged from a meeting of urban planning and legal experts held under the auspices of the African Centre for Cities […]

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Affordable housing projects get state financial boost in the US

Published in Monday August 6th, 2012 In In the media

August 3rd, 2012 by Claire Bessette Several local projects, including a planned conversion of the historic Ponemah Mill in Norwich, will receive state grants or loans in a major affordable housing investment announced Thursday by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. The Lofts at Ponemah Mills, a 116-unit project at the Taftville mill, was awarded $3 million […]

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