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:
- Promote legislative and / or administrative measures the judge can evaluate the consequences of the eviction in the procedures of eviction of tenants.
- Improve coordination between the judiciary and social services in order to prevent an evicted person from leaving his/her home without alternative housing.
- The evictions of vulnerable people only take place after having consulted in a genuine and effective manner these people and to ensure that the state has made every possible step using the maximum available resources to obtain a suitable alternative housing.
- Formulate and implement, in coordination with the regions, a plan to guarantee the right to housing for vulnerable people with the provision of resources, deadlines and evaluation of it.
Legal basis: Violation of the Right to adequate housing, Article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights:
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- Created Monitoring Group to follow up ESCR Committee decision against Spain. [November 2017]
- Press Release: Civil society organisations regret Spain's response to UN ruling and recommendations for failing to provide adequate alternative housing to a family
- Civil Society Submission to the response of the Spanish State. (Spanish) [March 2018]
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Jurisdiction:
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Subject:
Right to housing
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