Inhabitants of Europe
Istanbul, Urban Movements: We will not let Gezi Park, our labour, our life, our nature be touched!
Since the 27th of May, Istanbulites had been continuing a peaceful resistance in Gezi Park, soon to be demolished due to a renewal project. They will never allow any disregard the demolishment of neighbourhoods by urban transformation projects. The IAI full solidarity to the call from Urban movements!Your international support and solidarity are needed.
L’attività internazionalista dell’Unione Inquilini, convergenze e solidarietà
Nei primi mesi del 2013 l’Unione Inquilini ha partecipato attivamente all' Assemblea Mondiale degli Abitanti (Foro Sociale Mondiale Tunisi, 26-30 marzo 2013
) e a una inizitiava di confronto europeo svolto in Germania (24-28 aprile 2013) dei movimenti impegnati su vari fronti di lotta,
su invito della Fondazione Luxemburg. Prossime tappe l'Alter Summit (Atene 7-8 giugno 2013) e le Giornate Mondiali Sfratti Zero-per il Diritto ad Abitare durante tutto ottobre.
La vivienda en cooperativa hace frente a la crisis financiera e inmobiliaria
Frente al fuerte aumento de la especulación inmobiliaria a escala internacional, cuyos efectos se sienten especialmente en Estados Unidos y en un buen número de países europeos, en especial en los países del sur de Europa, los encuentros internacionales de Lyon (UCLy 5 de julio de 2013) proponen iniciar una labor de comparación (y no de oposición) entre el modelo latino y el anglosajón resurgidos de la cooperación social, y su translación al ámbito de la vivienda asequible: “Community Land Trust”
por un lado y por el otro las “cooperativas latinas” de habitantes.
Hungary, The City is for All submitted a report to the Venice Commission
The City is for All
has sent a report to the Venice Commission on the criminalization of homelessness by the Hungarian constitution. The report details the ways in which the pertaining paragraph of the 4th Amendment to the Fundamental Law breaches the rights of homeless people and those without proper housing.
España, El gobierno aprueba una reforma del alquiler a espaldas del inquilino
El Congreso de los Diputados aprobó el pasado jueves la Ley de Medidas de Flexibilización y Fomento del Mercado del Alquiler de Viviendas. La Plataforma por una Vivienda Digna denuncia que esta reforma precariza aún más el mercado del alquiler y sólo busca movilizar temporalmente el stock de vivienda acumulado por las entidades financieras.
Re-thinking Trans-European Solidarity in fhe field of housing and cities
Crossing urban solidarity (Essen, 25 04 2013)
On April 26-27, in Wuppertal, Germany, a meeting was held, organized by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, in which international activists shared their experiences of struggle and organization. On the evening of 24-25, there was meetings with activists and representatives of different networks,organizations, movements fighting for the right to housing and the city, to debate a better coordination for concrete actions of solidarity in Europe against the austerity attacks.
Moscow dormitory tenants tried to pitch a tent near Mayor’s Office
On May, 15, at five p.m. tenants of Moscow dormitories came to the inner yard of Moscow City Mayor Office to make officials resolve their housing problems.
Housing is a right. Protest and solidarity with the Spanish being evicted
Protesta ante el Congreso por el rechazo de la ILP sobre desahucios (EFE)
Protest will be head today in front of the Spanish embassy in Paris, London, Edinburg, Berlin, Lisbon in solidarity against evictions and in support to the People’s Legislative Initiative (ILP), the citizens’ response to Spain’s mortgage lending fraud.Please disseminate!
Criminalization of homelessness to be included in the Hungarian constitution
Fidesz-KDNP, the ruling party coalition in Hungary, intends to include the criminalization of homelessness in the Hungarian constitution. The Parliament, where Fidesz-KDNP has supermajority, will vote on the 4th amendment to the Fundamental Law in the second week of March. This step is the culmination of the two-year-long campaign of vengeance that the government has waged against one of the most vulnerable and poorest social groups in the country: homeless people living on the street.
Justice on the Streets, participatory action research with homeless people in Budapest
We are happy to share with you the closing study of the participatory action research project launched by The City is for All in 2011 about discrimination experienced by homeless people in Budapest.