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Radical reforms considered to help fund public housing (Australia)

Published in Monday May 7th, 2012 In In the media

May 7, 2012 PUBLIC housing may be financed by securities, bonds or private public partnerships under a radical overhaul being considered by the state. Victoria’s $17.8 billion public housing portfolio is falling deeper into operational debt and will have exhausted all its cash reserves by the end of this year. In response, the state government […]

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Syrian refugees face housing shortage (Lebanon)

Published in Monday May 7th, 2012 In In the media

May 5, 2012 There are now so many Syrian refugees in Lebanon that they are running out of places to stay. Aid workers have warned for months that housing levels for refugees are quickly reaching a saturation point for the tens of thousands of refugees here, and it appears that the country has reached that […]

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UN official criticizes Chile’s housing reconstruction process

Published in Monday May 7th, 2012 In In the media

During a weeklong visit to Chile prompted by several local organizations, Raquel Rolnik, the special rapporteur on housing with the United Nations, criticized the role of subsidies in Chile’s reconstruction process after the 2010 earthquake. “The reconstruction following the 2010 earthquake has been an efficient and notable process, but it ought to rely upon a mechanism apart from subsidies,” Rolnik told the press.

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Wives of military police face eviction from city barracks (Uganda)

Published in Friday May 4th, 2012 In In the media

Families of military police officers living in Makindye Military Police Barracks have up to today to vacate the facility or face eviction, the UPDF has said. At least 185 families of the officers will be affected, with wives, children and relatives sent out, following an ultimatum issued on Tuesday.

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Columbia banks work together on low-income housing (USA)

Published in Wednesday May 2nd, 2012 In In the media

April 29, 2012 Seven Columbia banks that normally compete for customers are working together to increase the number of affordable home in some of the city’s most distressed neighborhoods. The banks have built nearly 30 homes and renovated several more in the city’s First Ward since 1994 by purchasing and restoring vacant or dilapidated homes. […]

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Tensions high in Port Bell as another eviction looms (Uganda)

Published in Wednesday May 2nd, 2012 In In the media

April 30, 2012 It is now three months since the murderous eviction that went wrong at Port Bell in Luzira, a Kampala suburb. The ground has, however, been set for a similarly hot-tempered eviction exercise of occupants on land belonging to Uganda Railways Corporation (URC), 100 metres away from the spot where Santos Komakech, a […]

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‘Landmark’ Roma eviction ruling sets precedent, rights group says (Bulgaria)

Published in Wednesday May 2nd, 2012 In In the media

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that evicting Roma from an established community outside of Sofia, Bulgaria, would violate the right to life. Amnesty International called it a “landmark judgment.” The Strasbourg-based rights court issued the ruling last week in favor of 23 Bulgarian nationals living in a settlement with about 250 other Roma. The Roma had settled in Batalova Vodenitsa, on the outskirts of Bulgaria’s capital Sofia, in the 1960s and 70s. The Roma, also known as gypsies, have been pushed to the margins of European society and have even become targets of persecution.

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Spanish homeowners rally together to fight evictions by banks

Published in Wednesday May 2nd, 2012 In In the media

May 2nd, 2012 Residents in a quiet suburb of Barcelona are taking the fight against the financial sector to the judiciary as they attempt to save a family from being evicted from their home, in a case that has become a powerful symbol of Spain’s five-year economic crisis. At 9.30am in the district of Santa […]

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Judge denies restraining order on closing ‘Occupy Madison’ camp (USA)

Published in Wednesday May 2nd, 2012 In In the media

April 29, 2012 A Dane County judge refused to issue a restraining order against the closing of the Occupy Madison encampment on the city’s east side. Judge Amy Smith says while Occupy Madison protesters have first amendment rights they have no special rights to camp out at the location on the 800 block of East […]

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Kolkata Slum dwellers’ eviction a crime: Binayak Sen (India)

Published in Wednesday May 2nd, 2012 In In the media

April 29, 2012 Describing the eviction of people from slums in Nonadanga in the eastern part of the city as a “tragedy and great crime”, human rights activist Binayak Sen Sunday accused the West Bengal government of being inhuman. “It (eviction) is a great tragedy and a great crime committed. It is really inhumane on […]

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