Keyword: Tenants
New York passes new protections for tenants in foreclosure
Stop Evictions Foreclosure
The New York Legislature did pass a set of comprehensive amendments to various provisions of the foreclosure laws and procedures. The new foreclosure law, in addition to extending the availability of settlement conferences for homeowners to all home loans (not just the subprime loans covered last year), includes some key tenant-related provisions:
Slovenia: Landmark ruling by the Council of Europe for Housing rights
Association of Tenants of Slovenia
The European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR), the Council of Europe body responsible for monitoring the implementation of the European Social Charter, reached the decision that Slovenia is in violation of the Charter with regards to housing rights. In the context of Collective complaint no. 53/2008, the ECSR considered that downgrading tenants’ legal protection is not in line with the international obligations deriving from the Social Charter. This decision provides case-law which will be useful in courts on a local, national and international level and is a step towards a more social Europe.
Boston, Rally Saturday for Legislation to “Save Our Homes”
Rally to Save Our Homes
Support Georgetowne Tenants United
Demand a Commitment from political candidates to support Supplemental Legislation that will Protect our Homes!Saturday, October 30, 11:30 a.m. (part of International Housing Rights and Zero Evictions Days of Action in October in the US and around the globe)Park in Cleary Square, corner Hyde Park Avenue and River Street, Hyde Park (next to Post Office, parking on street)
USA, Report on Renter's Rights violations in Foreclosed Properties
Protesters locked together inside Stony Ridge house against eviction (Toledo, USA, May 2010, J.D. Pooley/Sentinel-Tribune)
Despite a federal law enacted in 2009 to protect renters living in foreclosed properties, many tenants across the country are still being threatened with eviction and are being forced to leave their homes on short notice. A report released by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, Staying Home: The Rights of Renters Living in Foreclosed Properties,
explains the impact of the new law and discusses problems with its implementation, and summarizes the results of a 50-state survey of developments in state laws protecting tenants living in foreclosed properties since early 2009.
Saint Petersburg, anti-evictions mobilisation of dormitory tenants
Evictions of dormitory tenants in Saint Petersburg: background, current status and prospects. City Mayor orders tenants to be arrested
On October, 4, the tenants of a former construction workers dormitory located in Ilyushina, 15, Street of Saint Petersburg, who have gradually been evicted from their house for ten years by now, decided to remind the authorities and public of their plight.
The dormitories of Saint Petersburg: tenants’ protest action
The tenants of Saint Petersburg’s dormitories have voiced their protest against evictions.
On November, 8, supported by the Center of Workers Solidarity and trade union and human rights activists, about fifty tenants of residential houses that used to be earlier the dormitories owned by Soviet state run enterprises have staged a picket in front of the local City Government Housing Committee office. They protested the continuous attempts made by the new property owners, who privatized the former dormitories in the 1990 ies, to evict the tenants from their housing.
Russia,«We have deserved our housing!». Workers of Salut and ZIL protest
On December, 2, in the Chistye Prudy district of Moscow, a meeting was held by workers employed by two Moscow based companies «Salut» and ZIL and tenants of a number of dormitories.
Local dormitory tenants protest in Saint Petersburg
The tenants of dormitories of Saint Petersburg and Leningrad region in front of the newly elected City Hall (St. Petersburg, January 23 2012)
In the morning of January, 23, a gathering staged by a group of tenants living in some dormitories of Saint Petersburg and Leningrad region took place in front of the newly elected City Hall (Legislative Assembly).
Verso l'organizzazione di un nuovo movimento paneuropeo degli inquilini
Here we are, for social justiceIt is necessary to connect all experiences in Germany, Polish and in other European countries, because the deregulation plans of the EU have also reached the tenant area. It is important to mobilize not only for the opposition against privatizations in this area, but the main demand "Housing is a right and not a commodity" must be passed on to the people in order to fight against evictions and social exclusion forming a new movement. We want housing policy to become the policy of the European Union.