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The Right to Adequate Housing

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing analyses the ruling paradigm of housing policies that focus on housing finance as the main means of promoting homeownership. The report assesses the impact of prevalent housing finance policies on the right to adequate housing of those living in poverty. The Special Rapporteur concludes that the full realization of the right to adequate

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Youth homelessness in UK - Inside Housing article

An Inside Housing article highlights family problems as a major trigger for youth homelessness in the UK.

Nearly half of young people who become homeless have been made to leave home because their parents no longer want to live with them, a report has shown.

Research by Homeless Link indicates of those young people approaching councils with homelessness applications, 44 per cent said their parents were no longer willing to house them, with 14 per cent saying a friend or relative would not accommodate them.

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EU Research project: promoting the protection of the right to housing - evictions

Start of the pilot project on promoting the protection of the right to housing-homelessness in the context of evictions

FEANTSA experts in association with the School of Law, NUI Galway and Human European Consultancy will lead a major EU-funded research project on evictions across the 28 European Union (EU) Member States.

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Call for Solidarity in struggle against the criminalisation of homelessness in Hungary

"Being homeless is not a crime!" Call for action: International solidarity with homeless people in Hungary

We invite our friends all over the world to join our struggle against the criminalisation of homelessness in Hungary.

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Call for Solidarity in struggle against the criminalisation of homelessness in Hungary

We invite our friends all over the world to join our struggle against the criminalisation of homelessness in Hungary.

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New Publication: Beyond the Prison Gates - Australia

Homeless Persons' Legal Service: Beyond the Prison Gates – Straight from Prison to Homelessness

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FEANTSA director blogs on USICH site about homelessness and human rights

I Believe in Human Rights

By Freek Spinnewijn, Director of FEANTSA 

I believe in human rights. I even believe in human rights for people experiencing homelessness. This has to be said, because in many countries, States, and cities, the human rights of people experiencing homelessness are at worst violated, and most often ignored.  

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The Role of the University in Promoting Access to Legal Rights for People Living in Social Exclusion - The Experience from the "dret al dret" Project, Mean Streets: Chapter 11

Mean Streets: The Role of the University in Promoting Access to Legal Rights for People Living in Social Exclusion - The Experience from the "dret al dret" Project

 

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Right to Housing in Europe for Dummies

 
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Penalisation of Homelessness in Access to Social Housing and Shelters, Mean Streets: Chapter 6

Mean Streets: Penalisation of Homelessness in Access to Social Housing and Shelters

 

CO-WRITTEN BY

  • Dr Padraic Kenna, National University of Ireland, Galway
  • Marc Uhry, Fondation Abbé Pierre Rhone-Alpes, Lyon, France
  • Jamie Burton, Doughty Street Chambers, London, UK
  • Samara Jones, FEANTSA, Brussels, Belgium
  • Guillem Fernàndez Evangelista, Autonomous University of Barcelona (IGOP), Catalonia, Spain

 

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