In a landmark decision on the complaint No.
Fondation Abbé Pierre and FEANTSA published their 8th annual Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe. This report reveals new estimates of the number of homeless people in Europe and draw a specific focus to the issue of unfit housing.
The war in the Ukraine has both highlighted and added to Europe’s ongoing housing emergency. This crisis is hitting the poorest households hardest, severely affected by soaring prices, as well as homelessness services, which have seen an increase in the number of their clients.
Author: Cezara David
Anti-discrimination Programme Manager
Centre for Legal Resources (CLR)[i]
“He threw us out like animals, telling us that ‘if you don't take your things out of the house now, you can't go in after them’. So many police and gendarmes came with dogs."
Study on unfit housing in the EU: learning from different legislation to protect vulnerable tenants. (EN)
Download it here.
Date of the decision: 18 February 2021
Country: Spain
Jurisdiction: Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
On June 4th HRW organised a legal workshop about combatting unfit housing and slum landlords in the EU. The workshop feeds into a study on this topic that will be published soon. Here you can access a summary of the study. Below you can find the video of the session and the presentation of the speakers.
In 2020 the Committee made its findings public (in respect of Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Portugal) that set out the Committee’s follow-up assessments given by these countries to decisions in collective complaints.
States that have accepted the Collective Complaints procedure have to submit a simplified report every two years. The Irish report on follow up of the collective complaints can be found here.
by Cecilia Forrestal
Community Action Network
