FEANTSA and the Fondation Abbé Pierre recently launched the Fifth Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe 2020.
Fifth Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe 2020.
N.H. and Others v. France (Applications 28820/13, 75547/13 & 13114/15) [02.07.2020]
Date of decision: 2/07/2020
Jurisdiction: European Court of Human Rights
Country: France
Legal basis: Article 3, prohibition of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment
Court of Arnsberg (Germany), Decision 12 L 190/19.A [25.04.2019]
Germany: transfer to France suspended due to the risk of destitution of Dublin returnees to France.
Khan v. France (application no 12267/16) [28.02.2019]
Juridiction : Council of Europe – European Court of Human Rights
Country : France
Subject : Precarious living conditions of unaccompanied foreign minor in a shantytown and failure to execute judicial placement order: violation
Martin v. City of Voise. Case: 15-35845 [04.09.2018]
Date of the decision: 4 September 2018
Jurisdiction: United States Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit
Country: United States
Subject: The case challenged Boise, Idaho’s ban on sleeping in public.
US: Court Says Cities Can’t Criminalize Sleeping Outside Absent Other Housing or Shelter Options
M. K. v. France (34349/18) [24 July 2018]
Jurisdiction : Council of Europe – European Court of Human Rights
Language: French
Country: France
Subject: A mother sleeping on the street with her three children, asylum seekers, appealed to the administrative court of Toulouse. On 27th June2018, the court ordered the prefecture to provide her and her children with shelter, without delay and under penalty of 200 euros per day in case of delay.
Joined Cases C-411/10 and C-493/10 of N.S. v United Kingdom and M.E. v Ireland
Date of the decision: December 21, 2011
Jurisdiction: Court of Justice of the European Union
Country: United Kingdom and Ireland
Hunde v Netherlands (Application 17931/16)
Date of the decision: July 5, 2016
Jurisdiction: Council of Europe – European Court of Human Rights
Country: Netherlands
Subject: Non-admissibility – Article 3 – undocumented migrants – human dignity and core obligations under the ICESCR.
Legal basis:
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.



