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UN Special Rapporteur's report on Human rights-based housing strategies

 

The latest Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context was released on February 15

Leilani Farha latest report provides governments with guidance on developing and implementing rights-based housing strategies.

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CESCR Ruling: eviction violated family’s human rights in Spain

 
Spain violated the right to housing of a family with young children, who were evicted from a rented room in a flat without being provided with alternative housing.
 
The independent experts, from the Geneva-based Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, issued their findings after considering a complaint by a couple, who were evicted from their Madrid home in 2013 with their children aged one and three.
 
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The CESCR concerned about the significant rise in homelessness in the Netherlands

 

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Evicted rights in Spain: no room of one’s own

Koldo Casla 
Researcher on the right to housing, Amnesty International Spain.
 

This article was first published in OpenGlobalRights (Open Democracy)

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Conference in Tarragona 'Ensuring the effective exercise of the right to housing in the EU'

 

 
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing - Mission to Portugal

 
In December 2016 two United Nations human rights experts visited Portugal and expressed concern about the impact of the economic crisis and the austerity measures on the enjoyment of the rights to housing, water and sanitation in this country.
 
At the end of a joint official visit to the country, UN Special Rapporteurs, Léo Heller and Leilani Farha, warned about the situation of people in vulnerable situations, including the “new poor”- those who have been pushed into poverty as a result of the austerity measures.
 
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Keeping People in Their Homes Bill 2017 Introduced in Ireland

 

On February 23, 2017, the so-called Keeping People in Their Homes Bill 2017 was introduced in the Dáil Éireann, the Assembly of Ireland. On the basis of EU law, the bill would allow Irish judges or County Registrars to carry out a proportionality assessment in home repossession and eviction cases.

This means courts could consider the fundamental human rights of borrowers facing homelessness and opt for alternative arrangements that are less onerous than home loss.

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The Hungarian Ombudsman calls for support to the vulnerable groups but homelessness continue rising

 

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The Right to Rent Scheme: Landlords as Immigration Officers

Adrian Berry

Barrister at Garden Court Chambers

A shorter version of this article was first published for Legal Action magazine in the UK; thereafter expanded for his blog, Cosmopolis: Migration, Citizenship, and Free Movement

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Courts “Pump People into Homelessness,” Master of the High Court in Ireland Says

 

The Master of the High Court in Ireland, Edmund Honohan, criticized the Irish government for allowing courts handling home repossession and eviction cases to “pump people into homelessness,” according to The Irish Times. Honohan faulted the Irish state for not having procedures in place that would ensure courts apply EU consumer law in these cases.

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