Inhabitants of Europe

In Brussels, the first European States General for the Right to Housing draws up an alarming report.
Declaration: For the Right to Housing and the Right to the City throughout Europe

A European States General (EGSH) preparatory meeting was held in Bobigny (France) on February 2nd with about sixty people from various countries in attendance. A technical secretariat was set up. This text sets out the confirmed fixtures which will be held at the European parliament in Brussels, on November 5th and 6th, 2007.

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>>> Invitation to the European States General for housing rights.

>>> Press Release

>>> The program

Throughout the whole of the summer of 2007, the Russian capital has been the scene of pitched battle in at least 15 neighbourhoods.

First road blocks and the first death for «duped co-investors» on hunger strike

Show your solidarity sending now a message to Russian Government!

All you have to do is click info@habitants.org adding: “Solidarity with the demands of Unified Soviet of Coordination of the duped co-investors» first name, surname, organization (if appropriate) and country.

Click here to know the first supporters of this appeal

On 17th April the swindled victims of the property pyramids began a hunger strike in Moscow.

Show your solidarity sending now a message to Russian Government!

All you have to do is click info@habitants.org adding: “Solidarity with the demands of Unified Soviet of Coordination of the duped co-investors» first name, surname, organization (if appropriate) and country.

Click here to know the first supporters of this appeal

A year ago, on the 1st January 2006, a new housing code came into operation in the Russian Federation. One year later, what is the current position on the right to housing and efforts to ensure that it is respected?

European conference
Rome, April 5 2007
Campidoglio, Sala della Protomoteca

Self-recovery and Self-building for residential purposes aims at shaping the innovating, sometimes conflicting ideas which are generated from society into the form of partnership and at making more profitable state investments combining town planning policies with the social, residential and economic ones and, consequently, controlling the many factors which originate social exclusion and city degradation.

The program

The PVD emerged almost four years ago in Madrid, bringing together various collectives and neighbourhood and private associations concerned with the growing difficulty of finding a home in the city.

On the agenda: the urgency of housing, which now affects some 18 million people in Europe, of which 3 million are homeless. It is a situation which is becoming increasingly serious under the liberalisation of property markets and privatisation of the social housing sector.

The next stage: autumn 2007, European States General on housing and towns, Brussels.

Call and signatures:
English: Together for the european states general on the right to housing (pdf)
French: Ensembles pour des Etats généraux européens du droit au logement (pdf)
Spanish : Juntos hacia los estados generales del derecho a la vivienda (pdf)
Italian: Insieme per gli stati generali europei del diritto alla casa (pdf)
Russian: Together for the european states general on the right to housing (pdf)
Polish: Razem dla Europejskich Stanów generalnich (pdf)
Turkish : Konut hakki avrupa genel kurulu için birlesme (pdf)
Rumanian: Adunarea Generala Europeana Pentru Dreptul la Locuinte (pdf)
German: Zusammenarbeit für eine europäische Initiative für ein Recht auf Unterkunft (pdf)
Portuguese: Juntos pelos Estados gerais Europeus do direito à habitação (pdf)
Greek: Together for the european states general on the right to housing (pdf)

In order to work out the content and objectives of European States general in the last term of 2007, as well as come up with possible joint actions, we would like to invite you to participate in a preparatory meeting :


Appeal for European States general on housing rights

Athens European Social Forum

Some CIS countries have demonstrated recently a huge potential of political and social instability.
Kazakhstan is one of those examples.

Since the new Housing Code was put into practice on 1st 1anuary 2006 and reforms have accelerated in the field of communal housing, protest actions have proliferated and are spreading to more and more regions.