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M.B.D. and others v. Spain (Communication No. 5/2015) [5.07.2017]

  • Jul 5, 2017
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Date of the decision: 5 July 2017
 
Jurisdiction: UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
 
Country: Spain
 
Subject: Evictions without suitable alternative accommodation (tenants)
 
The Committee urged Spain to:
 
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    The DALO Law is 10 years old

    • Jun 26, 2017
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    On 5 March 2007, the French parliament unanimously adopted a law making the right to housing enforceable. Known as the DALO law, this text obliges the French State to move away from an obligation of diligence towards a performance obligation in ensuring access to housing for all.

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    Protecting the Right to Housing in England: A Context of Crisis

    • Jun 24, 2017
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    Just Fair, ‘Protecting the Right to Housing in England: A Context of Crisis’ (London, Just Fair, 2015),
    Dr. Jessie Hohmann
    BA, LLB, LLM, PhD. Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary, University of London.
     
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    The Shift: from housing as a commodity to housing as home and a human right

    • Jun 10, 2017
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    In June 2017 FEANTSA participated in a strategic meeting in Ottawa organized by the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Leilani Farha. The goal of the gathering was to discuss the next steps of “The Shift”, a global campaign for the right to housing launched at the Habitat III Summit in Quito in October 2016.

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    Evicted rights in Spain: no room of one’s own

    • Jun 9, 2017
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    Koldo Casla 
    Researcher on the right to housing, Amnesty International Spain.
     

    This article was first published in OpenGlobalRights (Open Democracy)

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    Conference in Tarragona 'Ensuring the effective exercise of the right to housing in the EU'

    • May 9, 2017
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    Reclaiming the Right to Housing

    • Mar 31, 2017
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    Juan Carlos Benito Sánchez
     
    PhD Fellow at University of Louvain (Belgium), Visiting Researcher at UCL (UK)
     
    Twitter: @jcbensan
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    Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing - Mission to Portugal

    • Mar 1, 2017
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    In December 2016 two United Nations human rights experts visited Portugal and expressed concern about the impact of the economic crisis and the austerity measures on the enjoyment of the rights to housing, water and sanitation in this country.
     
    At the end of a joint official visit to the country, UN Special Rapporteurs, Léo Heller and Leilani Farha, warned about the situation of people in vulnerable situations, including the “new poor”- those who have been pushed into poverty as a result of the austerity measures.
     
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    Report on "Financialization of housing and the right to adequate housing" by the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing

    • Feb 28, 2017
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    Housing and real estate markets worldwide have been transformed by global capital markets and financial excess. Known as the financialization of housing, the phenomenon occurs when housing is treated as a commodity – a vehicle for wealth and investment rather than a social good.
     
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    State of Housing Rights

    • Feb 17, 2017
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    The Right to housing is not constitutionally guaranteed. However, it is established in legislation through the Austrian Social Aid Act (§20); which supports “homeless people and persons in extraordinary precarious situations” through the “provision of housing”. The provincial governments contract these services out to NGOs.  
     
    Housing provision in Austria is saveguarded by the following elements: 
     
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