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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Source: Inside Housing

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.

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.

"Being homeless is not a crime!" Call for action: International solidarity with homeless people in Hungary

We invite our friends all over the world to join our struggle against the criminalisation of homelessness in Hungary.

We invite our friends all over the world to join our struggle against the criminalisation of homelessness in Hungary.

Homeless Persons' Legal Service: Beyond the Prison Gates – Straight from Prison to Homelessness

I Believe in Human Rights

By Freek Spinnewijn, Director of FEANTSA 

I believe in human rights. I even believe in human rights for people experiencing homelessness. This has to be said, because in many countries, States, and cities, the human rights of people experiencing homelessness are at worst violated, and most often ignored.  

Mean Streets: The Role of the University in Promoting Access to Legal Rights for People Living in Social Exclusion - The Experience from the "dret al dret" Project