Koldo Casla
Researcher on the right to housing, Amnesty International Spain.
This article was first published in OpenGlobalRights (Open Democracy)
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Evicted rights in Spain: no room of one’s own
Conference in Tarragona 'Ensuring the effective exercise of the right to housing in the EU'
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Reclaiming the Right to Housing
Juan Carlos Benito Sánchez
PhD Fellow at University of Louvain (Belgium), Visiting Researcher at UCL (UK)
Twitter: @jcbensan
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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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Report on "Financialization of housing and the right to adequate housing" by the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing
Housing and real estate markets worldwide have been transformed by global capital markets and financial excess. Known as the financialization of housing, the phenomenon occurs when housing is treated as a commodity – a vehicle for wealth and investment rather than a social good.
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State of Housing Rights
The Right to housing is not constitutionally guaranteed. However, it is established in legislation through the Austrian Social Aid Act (§20); which supports “homeless people and persons in extraordinary precarious situations” through the “provision of housing”. The provincial governments contract these services out to NGOs.
Housing provision in Austria is saveguarded by the following elements:
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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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State of Housing Rights
The right to housing is enshrined in the Finnish Constitution which includes a right to accommodation if life or health is in danger without arranged accommodation. The Constitution 6 § does not allow any discrimination due to origin. Finland has successfully implemented a strategy to reduce long-term homelessness.
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Concluding observations on Homelessness and Housing by the CESCR for Poland
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights considered the sixth periodic report of Poland (E/C.12/POL/6) at its 55th and 56th meetings (E/C.12/2016/SR.55 and 56), held on 21 and 22 September 2016, and adopted the present concluding observations at its 78th meeting, held on 7 October 2016
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Spanish case-law placing a temporal limitation on the effects of the invalidity of ‘floor clauses’ included in mortgage loan contracts in Spain is incompatible with EU law
Court of Justice of the European Union
PRESS RELEASE No 144/16
Luxembourg, 21 December 2016
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