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Report on "Financialization of housing and the right to adequate housing" by the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing

  • Feb 28, 2017
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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

  • Feb 17, 2017
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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

  • Jan 30, 2017
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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

  • Jan 25, 2017
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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

  • Jan 10, 2017
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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

  • Dec 22, 2016
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Court of Justice of the European Union

PRESS RELEASE No 144/16

Luxembourg, 21 December 2016

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Economic and social rights in the UK in 2016: A whole year under the UN spotlight and more is coming

  • Dec 19, 2016
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Koldo Casla, Policy, Research and Training Officer in Just Fair

koldo.casla@just-fair.co.uk

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Evictions and harassment of Miskolc residents declared unlawful and anti-constitutional by Ombudsman

  • Dec 8, 2016
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Féher Boróka, 

BMSZKI - Budapesti Módszertani Szociális Központ és Intézményei

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A common home in the New Urban Agenda?

  • Nov 15, 2016
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For the first time, Caritas Internationalis is participating in the Habitat III process

Sonia Olea Ferreras,  Commissioned by Caritas Internationalis for Habitat III

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Simon Communities call to include right to a home in Constitution

  • Sep 28, 2016
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The Simon Communities charity wants the Government to include the right to a home in the Constitution, saying homelessness violates a number of international treaties to which Ireland has signed up.

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