According to the applicants, in 1994, the Turkish security forces expelled the inhabitants of a village suspected of "aiding and abetting terrorists" of the PKK. According to the Turkish government, the security forces were actually terrorists disguised as policemen.

In July 2012, FEANTSA lodged a collective complaint against The Netherlands alleging that The Netherlands' legislation, policy and practice regarding sheltering the homeless is not compatible  with Articles 13 (right to social and medical assistance), 16 (right of the family to social, legal and economic protection), 17 (right of children and young persons to social, legal and economic protection), 19 (right of migrant workers and their families to protection and assistance), 30 (right to protection against poverty and social exclusion), 31 (right to housing), taken a

FEANTSA’s complaint against Slovenia built on the experienced gained from successfully filing a housing-based Complaint against France two years earlier (FEANTSA v. FRANCE, CC39/2006).

Priority need of housing and minor immigrants

The case originated in an application (no. 56328/07) against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by a Sierra Leonean national, Ms Husenatu Bah (“the applicant”), on 23 November 2007.

In its Collective Complaint against France (39/2006) in November 2006, FEANTSA alleged violations by France of the Revised Social Charter’s section on the right to housing (Article 31). Article 31 contains three specific obligations: to promote access to adequate housing, to prevent, reduce and gradually eliminate homelessness and to make housing affordable for those without adequate resources. FEANTSA alleged numerous violations of these obligations.