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Justice on the Streets – participatory action research about discrimination against homeless people

Published in Monday February 25th, 2013

In 2011, The City is for All launched a participatory action research project about discrimination experienced by homeless people in Budapest. The study has been a groundbreaking effort in Hungary to involve people who are directly affected by harassment, exclusion and discrimination in scientific research. Click here to read the report.

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Austerity may be hitting many in the UK, but it’s the homeless suffering most acutely

Published in Monday January 28th, 2013 In Opinion

From the mid-90s until 2010, following a concerted effort from national government, the numbers of people sleeping rough steadily declined. Thousands of men and women were helped to find social housing or private rented accommodation, often subsidised by housing benefit. But from 2010 onwards the effects of the economic downturn has slammed all this progress into a dramatic reverse.

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In Wyoming, US, Many Jobs but No Place to Call Home

Published in Tuesday January 15th, 2013 In In the media

As in any other place in the country, many homeless people in Wyoming have lived on the streets for years or suffer from mental illness or drug and alcohol addictions. But social service workers say they have seen a growing number of economic migrants from Florida and Michigan, Wisconsin and California, with nowhere to settle.

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The Champagne of Housing Rights: France’s Enforceable Right to Housing and Lessons for U.S. Advocates

Published in Monday January 14th, 2013

In the October edition of the Northeastern University Law Journal, Eric S. Tars, Julia Lum and E. Kieran Paul wrote an article about the right to housing in France and its lessons that can be applied at the United States of America. Nowadays, the US faces a serious homelessness crisis and the authors emphasize the need to address this issue.

Home ownership dreams in booming Beijing

Published in Thursday January 10th, 2013 In In the media

It was a bargain China’s zealous real estate buyers couldn’t refuse: at the East Asia Impressions Lake compound in suburban Beijing, apartments were selling for just 13,000 yuan ($2,086; £1,282) per square metre.
Similar apartments located closer to Beijing’s central business district cost approximately 20,000 yuan per square metre, according to Savills, a global real estate broker. In comparison, an average flat near London’s financial centre costs 50,000 yuan, while in New York the figure rises to a whopping 68,000 yuan.

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In India, Delhi Chief Minister will regularise all unauthorised colonies

Published in Wednesday January 9th, 2013 In In the media

Promising to construct three lakh houses for low and middle income families in national capital, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday said she will get all unauthorised colonies regularised as soon as possible.
Assuring that her government would not allow any house or colony to be demolished, Dikshit, who was addressing a convention of representatives of unauthorised colonies falling under ridge or Archaeological Survey of India’s land here, conceded that the government had failed to provide housing to migrant population due to which the problem of unauthorised colonies had arisen.

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Fires Rip Through Cape Town Slum in South Africa

Published in Friday January 4th, 2013 In In the media

At least three people died and thousands were left homeless after several fast-moving fires swept through a crowded slum at the edge of Cape Town on Tuesday, the South African Press Association reported. The fires broke out in a crowded township called Khayelitsha just before dawn, catching many residents as they slept.

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New rights for the homeless come into force in Scotland

Published in Friday January 4th, 2013 In In the media

Legislation which aims to effectively end homelessness in Scotland has come into force. The change entitles anyone finding themselves homeless through no fault of their own to settled accommodation. Previously, only those classed as being in priority need – often families with children – had that right. It meets Scotland’s historic 2012 homelessness commitment, first set 10 years ago by the Labour/Lib Dem government.

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Halt eviction of Delhi slum dwellers

Published in Thursday January 3rd, 2013 In In the media

Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister Ajay Maken Thursday asked Delhi Lieutenant Governor Tejendra Khanna to halt the eviction of slum dwellers and vendors. Maken wrote to Khanna accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party-controlled civic agencies of “blatantly violating” a central law by evicting slum dwellers and vendors without affording them rehabilitation.

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10,000 Displaced Persons May Get Agricultural Land in Kenya

Published in Wednesday January 2nd, 2013 In In the media

The Cabinet will decide how to resettle more than 10,000 IDP families and other evictees before the elections. With only two months to the polls, Head of Civil Service Francis Kimemia has said the government will make a decision on how to get land for their resettlement. The government is considering to use part of its land owned by ministries and parastatals to resettle the families which include those evicted from Mau and Embobut forests.

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