FAMILIES AT RISK of homelessness are to protest outside in the capital today.
They will meet outside Dublin’s City Hall at 2pm this afternoon. The event was organised by Gwen Connell and Tamara Kearns, who say that the key demands of the protest will be for rent controls and for new homes to be built.
They will also call for an end to discrimination by landlords against those receiving rent allowance.
The Welsh Assembly has agreed a motion to call for the abolition of the bedroom tax.
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Presentation given at FEANTSA's Study Session in March 2014 - Prevention of youth homelessness through access to social rights. This presentation highlights examples of changes in legislation and recent activism to ensure respect and promotion of human rights in Spain in the context of the economic crisis and the imposition of the government's austerity measures. In 2014, Caritas Espagne established a special unit to address the legal issues faced by people living in increasingly difficult circumstances, particularly those who have been made homeless or are at risk of homelessness due to
On 13 June 2014, Housing Rights Watch, along with Fondation Abbe Pierre and FEANTSA organized an expert workshop to talk about housing solutions for homeless people in Europe.
This report sets out to document the criminalization of homelessness in Canada by exploring the relationship between homeless persons – in particular, street youth - and law enforcement officials (both the police and private security). Drawing from over 240 interviews with street youth in Toronto in 2009, as well as a review of official statistics on Ontario Safe Streets Act tickets in Toronto over the past 11 years, we explore the ways in which homelessness has been criminalized through a law and order agenda.
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A homeless mother is appealing a landmark court decision allowing a local authority to use powers under the Localism Act to strike her off the housing register.
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing analyses the ruling paradigm of housing policies that focus on housing finance as the main means of promoting homeownership. The report assesses the impact of prevalent housing finance policies on the right to adequate housing of those living in poverty. The Special Rapporteur concludes that the full realization of the right to adequate
An Inside Housing article highlights family problems as a major trigger for youth homelessness in the UK.
Nearly half of young people who become homeless have been made to leave home because their parents no longer want to live with them, a report has shown.
Research by Homeless Link indicates of those young people approaching councils with homelessness applications, 44 per cent said their parents were no longer willing to house them, with 14 per cent saying a friend or relative would not accommodate them.
Start of the pilot project on promoting the protection of the right to housing-homelessness in the context of evictions
FEANTSA experts in association with the School of Law, NUI Galway and Human European Consultancy will lead a major EU-funded research project on evictions across the 28 European Union (EU) Member States.
We invite our friends all over the world to join our struggle against the criminalisation of homelessness in Hungary.
