HIC at the International Human Rights Day
Vowing that “another world is possible” for the 1.2 billion people with inadequate housing and more than 100 million who are homeless, and decrying the realities of war and forced evictions, Habitat International Coalition (HIC), reaffirms the human right
Laos Grassroots Savings Network
Through a horizontal exchnage process with communities in neighbouring Thailand, ACHR has helped develop a savings and credit network in Laos now comprising 6 cities and 6,000 families (in yr 2003).
Germany – Tenants Protest Privatisations in Ruhr District
At November 24 Tenants associations and neighbourhood groups from Bochum, Dortmund, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Herne, Oberhausen and Witten organized a protest against privatisation of rental housing in Dusseldorf, the capital of the German federal state North
HIC activities in the WSF 2005
HIC will be in the World Social Forum (WSF) of Porto Alegre from January 25 to 31, 2005. HIC bodies in partnership with other organization have registered the following activities.
HIC in Europe
Unione Inquiline suspended its activities as Focal Point and a regional committee was formed committed to building HIC in Europe
Chileans hold anti-globalization rally during APEC meeting
Ana Sugranyes, HIC General Secretary, and local HIC members participated to the rally organized to protest against US President Gorge W. Bush and the Economic Leaders' Meeting of the APEC.
Call for Papers: Privatisation in the housing sector
To exchange information and build ties between initiatives, housing organisations and academics to be able to act more effectively against neoliberal policy in the housing sector.
Questions on Tenure and Social Rents in USA
“social housing” is taken below as public housing (housing built owned and managed by local housing authorities with Federal subsidies under the United States Housing Act of 1937). There have been a number of programs of support for moderate income housing developed, owned, and managed by non-profits; they are less in number than public housing, and subsidies are limited. Tax credits also “subsidize” an even smaller number of units, and primarily for moderate, not low, income households, but are increasingly relied upon for the production of new housing at costs below what the market would provide.
Fireside Chat of the Century
A new book argues that America should finally fulfill FDR's promise to guarantee citizens essentials like a home and a job.
Large Dams In India — Temples Or Burial Grounds?
How do we measure progress? How are lives improved by progress? Who benefits from -- and who suffers the consequences of -- progress? What happens with development" projects as the 3,000 dams in India’s Narmada River?
India,100 women and children evicted from a night shelter in New Delhi
Policemen violently evicted around 40 homeless
women and 60 children from the Palika Hostel night shelter in New Delhi, India. The eviction took place despite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh alleged
assurances to civil society representatives that the she
UN Expert On Housing “Deeply Concerned” Over Forced Evictions In Indian Capital
Regarding the large-scale demolitions of slum dwellings and forced evictions in the Yamuna Pushta area of New Delhi that took place from February to June 2004.