Adrian Berry
Barrister at Garden Court Chambers
A shorter version of this article was first published for Legal Action magazine in the UK; thereafter expanded for his blog, Cosmopolis: Migration, Citizenship, and Free Movement
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The Right to Rent Scheme: Landlords as Immigration Officers
State of Housing Rights
The right to housing is enshrined in the Finnish Constitution which includes a right to accommodation if life or health is in danger without arranged accommodation. The Constitution 6 § does not allow any discrimination due to origin. Finland has successfully implemented a strategy to reduce long-term homelessness.
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Concluding observations on Homelessness and Housing by the CESCR for Poland
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights considered the sixth periodic report of Poland (E/C.12/POL/6) at its 55th and 56th meetings (E/C.12/2016/SR.55 and 56), held on 21 and 22 September 2016, and adopted the present concluding observations at its 78th meeting, held on 7 October 2016
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Spanish case-law placing a temporal limitation on the effects of the invalidity of ‘floor clauses’ included in mortgage loan contracts in Spain is incompatible with EU law
Court of Justice of the European Union
PRESS RELEASE No 144/16
Luxembourg, 21 December 2016
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Economic and social rights in the UK in 2016: A whole year under the UN spotlight and more is coming
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Evictions and harassment of Miskolc residents declared unlawful and anti-constitutional by Ombudsman
Féher Boróka,
BMSZKI - Budapesti Módszertani Szociális Központ és Intézményei
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A common home in the New Urban Agenda?
For the first time, Caritas Internationalis is participating in the Habitat III process
Sonia Olea Ferreras, Commissioned by Caritas Internationalis for Habitat III
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Simon Communities call to include right to a home in Constitution
The Simon Communities charity wants the Government to include the right to a home in the Constitution, saying homelessness violates a number of international treaties to which Ireland has signed up.
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France: Concluding Observations of the UN CESCR on the Right to Housing
The UN Committee on the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has published its findings on the case of France examined during its 6 to 24 June 2016 session in Geneva.
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New report on homelessness by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing
In March 2016, for the 31st session of the Human Rights Council, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Leilani Farha, will present her new report on homelessness and adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context.
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