Trade Unions, the far right, and housing
At the Berlin meeting (june 2019) of the European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and the City () this conference of European Trade Unions was mentioned, where European… Read more …
Author: Kees Stad
CALL: Socialise Housing across Europe!
The worsening housing problems in European cities are an important part of the general EU crisis. The EU treaties guarantee the free movement of capital (Art. 26 & 63 TFEU),… Read more …
Explaining financialisation and housing
The first meeting in the new office of (neighborhood center) Wijkcentrum d’Oude Stadt hosted a debate on “understanding financialisation”. Rodrigo Fernandez explained what financialisation is, how it works in relation… Read more …
April 6 international action day on housing
On April 6 demonstrations or other actions are being held in many European cities “against housing costs madness and evictions”. In the Netherlands the street is also taken by demonstrators… Read more …
Just out: Brochure Housing financialization
Housing financialization, Brochure of the European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and to the City… Read more …
Berlin residents want expropriation of large housing companies
In Germany, some of Europe’s largest residential property companies have emerged, which have bought up homes on a massive scale to rent them out as expensive as possible. Tenants and… Read more …
Expensive housing is the source of social anger
Dec. 10, 2018, By DAL federation
Housing is the largest and most important item of household spending in recent decades. However, this central question on purchasing power, raised by yellow… Read more …
The state and the privatisation of housing
One of the greatest myths upheld by advocates of neoliberal capitalism is that corporations and their owners prefer to operate in an environment with as little state involvement and influence… Read more …