Presentations from the Housing Rights Watch Conference, Paris, June 18th 2015

On June 18th 2015, Housing Rights Watch held a conference in Paris, "Housing Rights : the impact of strategic litigation and advocacy - Comparing Europe and North America"

See the program here

Here you can find presentations that set the pace for the day :

• "Illegal to be Homeless - The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S Cities" - Presentation by Tristia Bauman, Senior Attorney at National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty.

• "Using Collective Complaints in National Courts in The Netherlands" - Presentation by Pim Fischer and Joris Sprakel, Fischer Advocaten.

• "Youth Homelessness in Canada - Does challenging measures that criminalize homelessness work ?" - Presentation by Stephen Gaetz, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, and Melanie Redman, National Learning Community on Youth Homelessness.