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EVENT: Wed, Sep 17 2008 12:00 AM, Malmö

Housing and urban at ESF 2008, Malmö

At the European Social Forum (ESF) 17th to 21st Sept. 2008 in Malmö (Sweden) "reclaiming spaces" will co-organize two events:

Seminar: RECLAIMING THE CITY: Resisting evictions, demolitions, gentrification, privatisation, speculation…
Thursday, Sept. 18 2008, 9:30-12:30at Rosengård Värner Rydénskolan

ASSEMBLY OF URBAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Saturday, Sept. 20 2008, 9:30-12:30at Enskifteshagen, Tält 2

     Wed, Sep 17 2008, 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM  Uhr
    Malmö

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EVENT: Wed, Jun 06 2007 05:00 PM, Rostock, MS Stubnitz, Stadthafen

Globalising struggles for the right to housing, city, land

by and with:
WG Habitat at Forum Environment and Development - Mob e.V./Strassenfeger (Homeless, Berlin)- Habitat International Coalition (HIC)- International Network of Urban Research and Action (INURA) - Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) - Local Organizers of Community Organizations in Asia (LOCOA) - MNML, Brazil - Osaka Homeless Associations - Droit au Logement(DAL) - NO VOX
and (6 pm) Miloon Kothari, UN Special Rapporteur for the right to housing

     Wed, Jun 06 2007, 05:00 PM - 07:30 PM  Uhr
    Rostock, MS Stubnitz, Stadthafen

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EVENT: Wed, Jun 06 2007 02:30 PM, Rostock, MS Stubnitz, Stadthafen

Freedom of investment and habitat/housing: Global financial markets, privatisation, investments

with Sebastian Müller, Andrej Holm and Knut Unger (WG Habitat Forum Environment and Development, INURA, tenants' associations), R. M., (Local Organizers of Community Organizations in Asia - LOCOA/India), Vesna Tomse (urban.lab, Zurich), Wade Rathke (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - ACORN/USA), Alfredo Rodriguez, (SUR/Chile), Ana Sugranyes, (Habitat International Coalition - HIC General Secretary) and others...

     Wed, Jun 06 2007, 02:30 PM - 04:30 PM  Uhr
    Rostock, MS Stubnitz, Stadthafen

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Le Forum Social des Quartiers Populaires Fri, May 25 2007

CALL for the NATIONAL SOCIAL FORUM of the BANLIEUES

Over the past 30 years, the French banlieues have been calling for justice. Concrete demands have been expressed through demonstrations, marches, days of action, public meetings, hunger strikes, and mass revolts. The response from governments of all political hues that have all come and gone, since the Ministry for Urban and Social Development was set up 15 years ago to address social exclusion and ghettoisation in housing estates, has been an array of initiatives with their fair share of acronyms and so-called miracle cures: ZEP (Education Support & Development in Targeted Zones), DSQ, ZUP, ZAC & ANRU (Urban Development Zones…)

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HIC Thu, May 11 2006

REITs [Real Estate Investment Trust] create rental refugees

In their coalition agreement, the Berlin grand coalition basically advocated for stock market speculation via introduction of tax-free German Real Estate Investment Trusts, also known as REITs. But delegates of SPD’s [Social Democratic Party] left wing cry foul now. REITs could result in losses of trillions and create the destruction of Germany’s social housing structures. In the US, REITs make money by turning renters into refugees and by demolishing [mostly] HUD subsidized apartment complexes.

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