On June 4th HRW organised a legal workshop about combatting unfit housing and slum landlords in the EU. The workshop feeds into a study on this topic that will be published soon. Here you can access a summary of the study. Below you can find the video of the session and the presentation of the speakers.
Introduction: Study on unfit housing in the EU: how to better protect vulnerable tenants from slum landlords. Maria Aldanas, FEANTSA/ Housing Rights Watch. Maria Aldanas' presentation about the study is available here.
Good practices in the EU:
Facilitator: Padraic Kenna, NUIG, Ireland.
- The Netherlands: The approach of rogue property owners and the enforcement of the Housing Act in the Netherlands, Michel Vols, University of Groningen ERC (EVICT project). Here you can access Michel Vols' presentation about the situation in the Netherlands.
- France: ‘Habitat Indigne’ and the fight against slum landlords in France, Sarah Coupechoux, Abbe Pierre Foundation.
- Ireland: Substandard living conditions in Ireland and the provisions against slum landlords. Challenges in the implementation of the Housing Act 2009. Gavin Elliott, Legal Officer, Threshold Ireland. Click here to access Gavin Elliot's presentation.
- Belgium: Fighting against slum landlords, need for collaboration among actors, good practices. Nicolas Bernard, Université de Saint- Louis, Bruxelles. Here you can access Nicolas Bernard's presentation about the situation in Belgium (in French).
At the end of the presentation there was time for Q & A and a debate.
The video of the session can be accessed here.
With the collaboration of ERC EVICT project 
Contact maria.jose.aldanas@feantsa.org if you are interested in this topic.
