Housing is a human right
What would happen if housing were enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms? One activist’s inside account of the radical new fight to end homelessness
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Housing rights in Canada
The right to emergency accommodation, a breach in the dam of fundamental rights ?
By Marc Uhry , Fondation Abbé Pierre and Claire Zoccali, Lyon Bar
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Foreclosures, Housing Rights and Prevention of Homelessness in Spain
Over the last 30 years there have been several speculative bubbles in the Spanish housing sector. The first boom took place in the early 1970s, when 500,000 houses per
year were built until the oil crisis of 1973. This growth was not overly excessive, since the “secular shortage” of housing since the post-war period was being addressed,
combined with the migratory waves from the rural areas to the cities resulting from industrialization processes and the demographic growth during that period. The second
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Changing the Paradigm: Addressing the Criminalization of Homelessness in the United States through the UN Human Rights Committee Review
Introduction
Criminalization of homelessness will be in the international
spotlight as hundreds of advocates join top
government officials from the United States in Geneva,
Switzerland, October 17-18, 2013, for the Human Rights
Committee (HRC) Hearing on U.S. compliance with
the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
(ICCPR). As a result of strategic advocacy by the National
Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (the Law
Center), not only will the government be held accountable
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Housing Rights Watch Expert Workshop: Finding real solutions to the housing crisis - 2014 Madrid, Spain
On 13 June 2014, Housing Rights Watch, along with Fondation Abbe Pierre and FEANTSA organized an expert workshop to talk about housing solutions for homeless people in Europe.
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C-179/11 CIMADE, Support and Information Group for Migrants (GISTI) v Ministry of Home Affairs, Overseas Departments, Regional and Local Authorities and Migration [27.9.2012]
In this case, the Court considered that the minimum reception conditions of asylum-seekers, including housing, remain a duty for a Member State in receipt of an application for asylum, even where another Member State is finally to take charge of the applicant. This obligation only ceases "when that applicant has actually been transferred by the requesting Member State" and when the financial burden of granting minimum reception conditions is to be assumed by the requesting Member State (para. 58, 61).
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C-571/10 Servet Kamberaj v Social Housing Institute of the Autonmous Province of Bolzano (IPES) and others [2012]
In 2009, an Albanian long-term resident in Italy (hence deserving equal treatment with EU citizens in the field of social assistance, as expressed by Directive 2003/109/EC on the status of long-term resident third-country nationals in the EU) was refused housing assistance for the first time since his first application in 2004. The funds for housing assistance for non-EU nationals, inferior to the funds available for EU citizens, were exhausted.
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Presentation - Community land trust Bruxelles -HRW expert workshop June 13 Madrid
Human rights watch UPR Submission on Spain
Summary
This submission highlights key areas of concern regarding Spain’s compliance with its international human rights obligations: migration and asylum policy, sexual and reproductive rights, the right to peaceful assembly, the right to adequate housing, incommunicado detention, and universal jurisdiction.
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Shattered Dreams Impact of Spain’s Housing Crisis on Vulnerable Groups
Human Rights Watch Report.
Hopeful home purchases during Spain’s economic boom have turned into a nightmare of foreclosures, evictions, and over-indebtedness amid the economic crisis.
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