Koldo Casla’s Appointment as UN Special Rapporteur Highlights New Research on Property, Housing and Social Rights cc @universityofessex.bsky.social & @elgarpublishing.bsky.social www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2...

Investigamos los planes de vivienda protegida en alquiler al detalle y encontramos un modelo pensado para rentas medias y altas, que deja fuera a quienes más lo necesitan. Aquí una radiografía de cómo las políticas públicas de alquiler pueden acabar logrando justo lo contrario de lo que promueven.

🆕New edition of our #newsletter features an analysis of legal action following a municipal shelter closure in Badalona, Spain. The legal team secured injunctions requiring alternative #accommodation through proceedings to protect fundamental rights. www.housingrightswatch.org/content/proc...

🏙️ Saps quins tipus de propietaris hi ha a la ciutat de #Barcelona? El 96,3% del total de propietaris són persones físiques i concentren el 84,5% dels #habitatges. En canvi, el 3,7% són persones jurídiques i acumulen un 15,2% del parc 📈 🔗 Llegeix l’informe: www.ohb.cat/project/estr...

In Memory of Gyula Balog (1959-2025), an inspiring housing rights and anti-poverty activist Here is a brief reflection on behalf of @hrw.org to express our condolences, as Gyula’s friends and colleagues lay him to rest today in Budapest. Rest in power, Gyula bacsi! www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

"Litigation on the Progressive Realisation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Under What Conditions May It Be Strategic?" A paper co-produced by a team of human rights academics and practitioners. Supported by @slsauk.bsky.social cbeh.cat/wp-content/u... cc @essexhrc.bsky.social

Over half of #Barcelona residents blame tourist apartments for neighbourhood tension #right2housing

🏠 Want to stay updated on housing rights across Europe? Subscribe to our newsletter for news, actions & insights! 📩 Sign up now: bit.ly/4hJ9RXC 🌐 housingrightswatch.org #HousingRights #SocialJustice #Right2Housing

This week, Observatori DESCA presented a report to the Spanish Ministry of Consumer Affairs on unfair terms in the housing market (in Spanish). Can consumer law advance the #right2housing? You can find the report here 👉 bit.ly/46hXYEh

🏡New report on the experience of several European cities in managing short-term rentals by @ohb.cat 21/10/2025 #Right2housing

🏠 Want to stay updated on housing rights across Europe? Subscribe to our newsletter for news, actions & insights! 📩 Sign up now: bit.ly/4hJ9RXC 🌐 housingrightswatch.org #HousingRights #SocialJustice #Right2Housing

Germany’s government is set to make major social security cuts, and replace the only recently-created “Citizen’s Income” with a more punitive “New Income for Jobseekers”. These plans will increase poverty. Human rights can help guide the debate back to what matters. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Thank you @koldocasla.bsky.social and University of Essex and Barcelona colleagues, for the opportunity to discuss strategic litigation and other avenues to make progress in realizing ESC rights. Great to meet and work with @observadesca.bsky.social @rightohousing.bsky.social @gentium.bsky.social

For decades, private landlords have had free rein to set rents as they please. The result? Skyrocketing prices and renters pushed to breaking point. There's still time to sign our letter to Angela Rayner, urging the Gov to take action on unfair rent hikes ⬇️ www.generationrent.org/campaign/tel...

📧 New issue of www.housingrightswatch.org#newsletter, this time featuring an analysis entitled ‘Stable, constant and secure access to adequate #energy: the case of Cañada Real in #Madrid’: www.housingrightswatch.org/content/stab...

#ECJ: A Member State may not plead an unforeseeable influx of applicants for international protection in order to evade its obligation to cover #asylum seekers’ basic needs 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...

📧 New issue of www.housingrightswatch.org#newsletter, this time featuring an analysis entitled ‘Stable, constant and secure access to adequate #energy: the case of Cañada Real in #Madrid’: www.housingrightswatch.org/content/stab...

Hey Bluesky enjoyers, we're here now. Follow and subscribe to get the latest on the fight to solve homelessness with housing and support. homelesslaw.org/subscribe/

WEBINAR | @feantsa.bsky.social Repurposing vacant spaces to create housing solutions? 🗓️Join us on 21 May at 10:00 am CEST for the launch of our new report exploring innovative ways to turn empty spaces into opportunity. 🔗 Register : bit.ly/4kcZueE #RightToHousing #VacantSpaces

WEBINAR | @feantsa.bsky.social Repurposing vacant spaces to create housing solutions? 🗓️Join us on 21 May at 10:00 am CEST for the launch of our new report exploring innovative ways to turn empty spaces into opportunity. 🔗 Register : bit.ly/4kcZueE #RightToHousing #VacantSpaces

EAC #HousingActionDays Webinar 💻 📢 PARALLEL WORLDS Demands of grassroots movements and the EU plan for affordable housing 📌 Saturday, April 26, 5 pm CET facebook.com/events/18751... Speakers are:

📣✊We will be joining @pahbarcelona.bsky.social along other social movements tomorrow at 6PM at Plaça Universitat in Barcelona, come and join us! #OurHomesOurPower @maketheshift.bsky.social @rightohousing.bsky.social @inquilinatomad.bsky.social @sindicatlloguer.bsky.social

The Trump administration’s first 100 days in office have been a relentless barrage of actions that violate, threaten, or undermine human rights. To illustrate the breadth and depth of damage, HRW has compiled 100 harmful actions during these 100 days ⤵️

Get ready for #had2025 ! If you would like to participate in global Housing Action Days, but are unsure if you have the capacity or you don't have an idea what you could do, get inspired by some actions from last year.

📢 Join us and 570+ organisations from across the EU and beyond: We call on MEPs to address unprecedented attacks on NGOs in the European Parliament and ensure citizens’ voices are heard ‼️ 📄 Read our statement: civilsocietyeurope.eu/attacks-on-n... #StopAttackingNGOs

✍️We'll be publishing our newsletter soon. Sign up if you don't want to miss it! 📧On va bientôt publier notre newsletter. Inscrivez-vous pour ne pas la louper. www.housingrightswatch.org

🚨 Major legal development on Denmark's 'ghetto package' Advocate General Ćapeta's opinion confirms: ⚖️ "Non-western" background constitutes ethnic origin, the law is #discriminatory in breach of Directive. Read the analysis by Susheela Math, Open Society Justice Initiative: 🔗https://bit.ly/4j4nAHV

🚨 Major legal development on Denmark's 'ghetto package' Advocate General Ćapeta's opinion confirms: ⚖️ "Non-western" background constitutes ethnic origin, the law is #discriminatory in breach of Directive. Read the analysis by Susheela Math, Open Society Justice Initiative: 🔗https://bit.ly/4j4nAHV

ECSR Review on cost-of-living crisis 'Rising housing costs and an increasing risk of #homelessness are critical issues. The ECSR stresses that the Charter requires States to ensure that rents are affordable & that adequate housing benefits are adequate in relation to housing costs' bit.ly/3FRLw2F

People must have access to stable, consistent and safe access to adequate energy, says the @coe.int’s European Committee of #SocialRights in a landmark decision 👇 🔗 www.coe.int/en/web/porta... #HumanRights #EuropeanSocialCharter

❗ The decision of the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) of the Council of Europe in the Complaint No. 203/2021, FEANTSA v. Belgium, is now public. It confirms serious violations of the European Social Charter in relation to the right to #housing in the Flemish region of Belgium.

The decision in @FEANTSA v. Belgium is now public. Their press release highlights the urgent need for #housing policies that effectively tackle #homelessness and prioritise the needs of vulnerable groups. #woonzaak www.feantsa.org/en/press-rel... The decision: hudoc.esc.coe.int/fre/?i=cc-20...

Interessant: het Europees Comité voor Sociale Rechten stelt de Vlaamse "Woonzaak" in het gelijk. "De Vlaamse regering doet niet genoeg om de betaalbaarheid van woningen voor kwetsbare groepen aan te pakken" www.demorgen.be/nieuws/europ...

Fake news has become a powerful tool in the hands of the right-wing in the European Parliament. Since early 2024 two myths have been spread about EU funding of NGOs. They have no substance, but still lay the ground for debate and proposals Read our article! corporateeurope.org/en/2025/03/f...

In our view, attacks by the European Parliament and Commission on the funding of NGOs are also part of this general European trend of democratic backsliding. Get the low down here: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/01/e... and watch this space for more...

Have you submitted your abstract yet❓ The call for abstracts for the 19th European Research Conference on #Homelessness closes next Saturday, 15th March. Don't miss the chance to present your research at Europe’s leading conference on homelessness! 🔗 Submission instructions: bit.ly/4i3XDaL

The latest issue of the European Journal of Homelessness is now available❗ Providing critical analysis for policy makers, practitioners, researchers, and academics, the journal covers a wide range of topics on #homelessness and housing exclusion. Read it and download it here:🖇️ bit.ly/EJH18-2

🏠 New FEANTSA Policy Brief: The Dos and Don'ts of Modular Housing 🗺️In this policy brief, we explore the dos and don’ts of modular housing and what pre requisites would help prevent its use as a distinctly inadequate and stigmatising form of housing.

Registrations are now open for the FEANTSA Forum2025 in Athens! 🏛️ Join us on May 13-14 for the largest event on homelessness in Europe. Connect with experts, service providers, policymakers, and more. 🎫 Register & see the full programme: bit.ly/FEANTSAForum25

⚡ A European rights committee rules that access to energy is essential for fundamental rights & states like Spain cannot outsource human rights duties to private utilities. 🏠 FEANTSA urges immediate electricity restoration for Cañada Real’s energy-poor residents. 🔗 shorturl.at/hirPF

European Court of Justice rules out forced integration of #immigrants in the EU #ghettopackage www.brusselstimes.com/1456826/euro...

The repeated power cuts suffered by the 4,500 residents of #CañadaReal, a settlement south of Madrid, constitute a violation of the European Social Charter, the Council of Europe's European Committee of Social Rights said on Wednesday #right2housing #right2energy www.euractiv.com/section/poli...

In case you missed ECSR's decision: 'stable, consistent and secure access to adequate energy" is a prerequisite for, and a key element of, enjoyment of the rights to #housing, #health, #education, and protection against poverty and social exclusion under the European Social Charter. #right2energy

📢 Call for Abstracts! 19th European Research Conference on Homelessness Submit your abstract by March 15 for a chance to be featured at Europe's leading research event on homelessness. This year, co-organised by the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. 📝 bit.ly/4i3XDaL

Very proud of my friends at @grippuk.bsky.social and @atd4thworld.bsky.social who are in Geneva today, telling the UN about what poverty feels like in the UK in our times. #CESCR2025 Record number of submissions. UN folks, listen to them.

New report available by the Mr. Balakrishnan Rajagopal, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing : "Towards a just approach to the global housing crisis and migrants", to be presented to the UNHRC in March 2025. #right2housing docs.un.org/A/HRC/58/50

🗓️Save the date ! Monday 17 February at 7pm 👩‍⚖️ In France, 40 associations fighting against housing exclusion take the state to court! 📢Webinar presenting the case by the associations, lawyers and others working on it for months. Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Merci aux organisateurs du Forum du sans-abrisme, l'Observatoire de la précarité de la HETSL et le Collectif 43m2, pour son invitation! Hâte d'échanger avec vous à Lausanne sur les politiques sécuritaires et la criminalisation de la pauvreté #LaPauvretéNestPasUnCrime #SansAbriNonCoupable

💡New legal submission! OG and @maketheshift.bsky.social wrote to the UN CESCR on energy efficiency, heating, and economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights in the UK #Housing sector. 🔌 Read on!👇 🧵1/5 #GreenSky #ClimateSky #LawSky #EnergySky #PublicHealth www.opportunitygreen.org/publication-...

In a landmark ruling, the European Committee of Social Rights has unequivocally condemned the Czech Republic for its inadequate housing policy, deeming it a violation of the European Social Charter. 📄