Rights @ habitants.de --- 6 articles found --- Click on the titles --- 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 >> Read more Habitat Netz Tue, May 22 2007 NGOs miss Right to Housing in European Territorial Strategy Habitat International Coalition (HIC), the "Habitat Working Group at German NGO Forum Environment and Development" as well as the "Ruhr Tenants Forum" have criticized that housing is not an issue at the agenda of the German EU council presidency. "There is no sustainable urban development without right to housing", NGOs say. >> Read more Habitat Netz Thu, Apr 05 2007 Include the Right to Housing into the EU territorial strategy and the Leipzig Charter ! Habitat International Coalition (HIC) called the German EU council presidency to include housing issues in the debates on the European territorial strategy; "We propose that the Leipzig Charter should reaffirm the human rights and, in this context, the right to housing", HIC wrote in a letter to the German minister Tiefensee. >> Read more 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. >> Read more HIC Thu, May 11 2006 Condo-Coversions and Evictions in Los Angeles In Los Angeles, as in many other American Cities, real estate companies are acquiring former social dwellings and converting them into private condominiums. Since 2001, nearly 13,000 evictions (nearly 9,000 evictions since 2005) have occurred as a result of affordable rental housing units in Los Angeles being demolished or converted to condos, and the trend is escalating. In 2004, 1,261 units were lost; last year, 5,273. At its current pace, the 2006 figure will be higher. The city is working to add affordable housing, but it is losing as many such units. Meanwhile, most of its low-income tenants are evicted to make way for market-rate housing. >> SOURCEVERSION OCHR - UN Habitat Sun, Dec 15 2002 Housing rights legislation - international and national legal instruments (PDF) This research report by UN Habitat and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has been prepared to promote global understanding of the linkages between housing and human rights. Its focus is on housing law and how it can be used by States and the international community to address the problems of homelessness, forced evictions and housing deprivation from a human rights perspective. >> SOURCEVERSION | 
