The Vagrancy Act 1824[1] has been in place in the United Kingdom for almost 200 years, making it a criminal offence to rough sleep and beg. In February 2022, UK Ministers finally confirmed that the Vagrancy Act will be repealed as part of a government amendment to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021[2].
Date of the decision: 19 February 2021
Country: Spain
Jurisdiction: Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The problem of "financialization" is a threat awaiting the largest Polish cities, both due to the accumulation of apartments as capital investment, and for the needs of tourism. In the near future, this threat could become as serious a problem as the infamous re-privatization, warn Maria J. Aldanas and Jakub Wilczek of FEANTSA.
For the first time, Housing Rights Watch and the Housing Solutions platform organized a joint webinar on the theme "Rethinking rent control in Europe".
On the 14th of September 2021, a report was presented on Monitoring adequate housing in Ireland by the ESRI and the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC).
This training course is part of a series of capacity building activities addressed mainly to FEANTSA members in the framework of our Annual Programme.
Housing Rights Watch organised this online event together with Ricardo Ferreira and Ana Martins, AMI, Fundação de Assistência Médica Internacional.
Study on unfit housing in the EU: learning from different legislation to protect vulnerable tenants. (EN)
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The Abbé Pierre Foundation and FEANTSA published their Sixth Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe on 6 May 2021. This latest report focuses on young people, who are worse affected by housing exclusion than other groups, especially when they are poor, which was the case even before the pandemic took hold. The report also takes stock of the wave of poverty that has engulfed Europe more than a year after the pandemic began. Difficult housing conditions have a negative impact on young people's pathway to independence.
