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Human rights and equality must be at the core of the Grenfell inquiry

 

Eleanor Leydon 

Just Fair member & law student at City University

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Collective Complaint n° 110/2014 - International Federation for Human rights (FIDH) v. Ireland [23.10.2017]

 

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Collective complaint: Ireland has failed to provide adequate housing conditions on local authority estates

Press Release


A press conference with tenants and supporting organisations took place Monday,  23 October 11 am at The Witness Gallery, The GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1.

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State of Housing Rights

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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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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M.S.S. v. Belgium and Greece (Grand Chamber) (Application no. 30696/09)

Date of the decision: January 21, 2011

Jurisdiction: Council of Europe – European Court of Human Rights

Country: Belgium and Greece

Subject: ECHR – articles 2 and 3 – lack of remedy – Article 13.

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Collective Complaint n° 61/2010 - European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) v. Portugal [30.06.2011]

Illegal to be homeless - The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities

Presentation by Tristia Bauman (tbauman@nlchp.org), Senior Attorney, National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, Washington, D.C.

 

 

Illegal to be homeless - the criminalisation of homelessness in U.S. Cities

 

 

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Housing in Spain in the 21st Century

Diagnosis of the residential model and proposals for another housing policy.

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Judgment of 16 January 2014, Constructora Principado, C-226/12

Relevant Articles: Article 3(1) of Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts

This request concerns the interpretation of Article 3(1) of Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts (OJ 1993 L 95, p. 29) (‘the Directive’).

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