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Buenos Aires: Housing is a right, not a business

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The autonomous gathering of civil society organisations in Carlos Pelegrini 211 has now collected more than 3,000 signatures. During a ‘week-long camp’, from 12th to 16th of May 2008, they will be present 24 hours a day (120 hours non-stop) campaigning for a positive response for decent housing projects in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.

A sad anniversary for tenants in France

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One year on from the new presidency, heralded as pro-reform, what has been achieved?

Adoption of the enforceable right to housing is far from being accomplished. Voted in a hurry during the electoral campaign, the law was designed to house categories of people requesting housing considered to be priority cases, including the homeless. Target figures have not been met and procedural obstacles for candidates to be recognised as priority cases have multiplied.

Forced evictions reach crisis levels

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Research conducted by Amnesty International and the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) reveals that the practice of forced evictions has reached epidemic proportions in Africa.

Derecho a vigencia del presupuesto participativo

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The urban way

Thirty years of Habitat I: no more neoliberal model of cities!

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It is possible to build new cities thanks to a new urban social pact centered on the citizens. The failure of the neoliberal model of cities.

Thirty years after the first Habitat I world summit held in Vancouver, we, citizens of the world, have witnessed the manifest deterioration of our living conditions and unalienable rights.

Puerto Rico, Cero desalojos, No a las expropiaciones

El Grito de l@s Excluíd@s -- capítulo de Puerto Rico repudia y denuncia las políticas de exclusión, desalojo y expropiación de comunidades pobres para dar paso a megaproyectos excluyentes para sectores privilegiados. A esos efectos el Grito se une a la Jornada de Acción Global del 26 de enero 2008 en solidaridad con la Alianza Internacional de Habitantes y del Foro Social de Puerto Rico.

 

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