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.

http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/legal/homeless-mother-appeals-housing-waiting-list-ban/7002234.article

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.

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

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

REPETITIVE CASES: BEARD v. the United Kingdom; CHAPMAN v. the United Kingdom; COSTER v. the United Kingdom; SMITH v. the United Kingdom; and LEE v. the United Kingdom.

COMPLAINT

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