Inhabitants of Americas

Following almost four decades of struggle for urban land to build their houses, mutual-aid housing cooperatives confront the progressive government of President Tabaré Vázquez, which has criminalized occupations and bogged down loans.

News Release
Minnesota-New Orleans Solidarity Organizing Committee.
November 13, 2007

Harsh pronouncement: IAI vows to take Mexico’s case to the United Nations Advisory Group on Forced Evictions

The Right to Housing and the City

At 10 am on 18th of September, in Plaza Bolivar, Caracas, the Comités de Tierra Urbana (Urban Land Committee), Red de Inquilinos (Tenants’ Network), Red Metropolitana de Inquilinos (Metropolitan Tenants’ Network), Campamentos de Pioneros (Pioneer Settlements) and the Conderjes Unidos por Venezuela (Caretakers United For Venezuela) gathered together for a march to the Supreme Tribunal of Justice to demand that magistrates put an end to tenant evictions.

Cancel the debt for participative reconstruction
The International Alliance of Inhabitants, a network that brings together inhabitants’ organisations from diverse parts of the world, hereby expresses its solidarity with t the Peruvian populations struck by the destructive earthquake last October 15th.

Complicit governments have reduced the constitutional right to housing to nothing.

The Housing Defence Council (Consejo de Defensa de la Vivienda, CDV) held a Forum on the 7th August in Southern Mexico, dealing with ‘the analysis of legislative proposals’ concerning housing.

People in Communities of color have lost billions of dollars in home equity, and today they are losing their homes on a massive scale

A Dominican Proposal to the National and International Community

With caravans bringing in approximately one thousand five hundred community leaders from around the country, CONAM’s day in Brasília was characterized by a protest march through the Esplanade of Ministries, public hearings at the ministries and a ‘blitz’ on Congress.

The New G-local Leaders for Eviction Free Zones and Cities

The CONAM’s national campaign of struggle for development, employment, urban reform and social rights.

Vacant property can completely eradicate homelessness in NYC

The international IAI Days will be held in Santo Domingo from April 18 to 26, 2007, organized by the International Alliance of Inhabitants in collaboration with numerous social, academic and institutional partners.

Following an important visit from the dominican Pedro Franco of the International Alliance of Inhabitants (IAI), the ties between Peruvian inhabitants and the international organisations are strengthening.

On 3 March 2007, in the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela, the ‘Zero Evictions’ campaign was launched by a platform of organisations working for the right to housing and the democratisation of the city. Over 2,000 people attended, from different social sectors facing the threat of forced eviction or the tragedy of not having decent housing.

More than one hundred representatives of various housing areas and residents’ associations were present at the foundation of the Federation of Neighbourhood Associations of Lima and Callao (FOVELIC) on Sunday 28 January 2007.

On 11 February 2007, the Cooperative for Social Housing and Habitat Production, COOPHABITAT: an initiative to solve the housing problems of the majority of the population who lack secure housing.

Section on Violations of the Right to Housing
On July 15 and 16, 2006, the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) made history in Cleveland, Ohio by holding the first National Truth Commission on Poverty in the United States of America. The National Truth Commission was held in Lincoln Park, in Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood. Years in the planning and modeled after similar commissions in Africa and Latin America, the National Truth Commission brought people from all across the U.S. and the world to bring to light the actual suffering and economic human rights violations that many Americans endure on a daily basis.
Nearly 500 people came to listen and be heard over the course of the weekend.

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