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Housing Without Developers

(Português) Na semana passada o Studio X Mumbai realizou um workshop de um dia intitulado provocativamente “Habitação sem Construtoras”. Como elaborado em seu site, o workshop tentou desafiar a aparente inevitabilidade de soluções baseadas no mercado, para os problemas que eles mesmos associaram a privatização do mercado de habitação. Os participantes do workshop discutiram como o desenvolvimento das favelas na Índia e as habitações públicas no ocidente desafiaram as normas aceitas de soluções baseadas no mercado.

Resident Groups Combat Spike in Evictions in Germany

Skyrocketing rents in many German cities are pitting residents against real estate developers and landlords. The recent death of an elderly woman forced out of her apartment has emboldened alliances to protest evictions with sit-ins.

Tens of thousands face eviction from Haiti camps, according to Amnesty

Rights group Amnesty International has collected dozens of testimonies from Haitians who have been kicked out of makeshift camps set up by those left homeless by the 2010 earthquake.

African slum dwellers get boost to improve living conditions

Unveiled on Tuesday during the ongoing UN-Habitat’s Governing Council in Nairobi, the Community Managed Development Fund targets close to 800,000 slum dwellers living in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Criminalization of homelessness – local impact, global issue

As the economic crisis continues at the bottom end of the income spectrum, the past week has brought two victories worth noting, from the most humble of tent encampments to the marble halls of the U.N.’s Palais Wilson in Geneva.

Hungary rejects “groundless” UN criticism on treatment of homeless people

Hungary’s government rejects the “groundless criticism” made by two UN rapporteurs in connection with recent constitutional amendment concerning homelessness.

Hungary is entrenching the criminalization of homelessness, say UN experts on poverty and housing

Two UN Special Rapporteurs criticized today a recent amendment to the Hungarian Fundamental Law that authorizes to outlaw sleeping in public spaces.

Federal Court Victory for Homeless Advocates in the US

In a ruling issued earlier today in Washington, D.C., a federal court denied the Obama Administration’s motion to set aside a 1993 court order against the federal government requiring compliance with Title V of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, a law that gives homeless services providers access to unused federal properties for free.

Ne büntesd a szegénységet – Don’t let homelessness become a crime!

Watch the video against the criminalization of homelessness in the Hungarian Constitution.

Az alkotmány nem játék! – The constitution is not a plaything!

Watch the video below regarding the criminalization of homelessness in Hungary.