Le logement c’est pour les gens, pas pour l’argent
Nos espaces de vie se transforment en or et en actions en bourse. De plus en plus de nouveaux appartements chers font monter les prix et le nombre de logements… Read more …
Global Housing Debt
Housing for people instead of profits!
We are experiencing the transformation of living space into the new gold standard. They become investments on the stock markets. While there is an increase in new, high-end housing stock,… Read more …
Belfast: Sunflower Ecovillage
Belfast, Ireland – Last Thursday at a large manufacturing conference here, a representative of the luxury development firm Castlebrooke announced that the Belfast City Council, under pressure from local community… Read more …
“Affordable housing” and “social housing”: new ways of public housing privatization and financialization in Europe
The housing crises
During the decade following the 2008 global financial crises, international organizations with a fundamental role in shaping financial and development policies – such as the European Commission,… Read more …
Spotlight on financial justice: understanding global inequalities to overcome financial injustice
Through five thematic chapters – 1) food and land, 2) health, 3) women’s rights, 4) housing and 5) infrastructure, the report shows that rising inequalities, and the overexpansion of the… Read more …
A short overview of Public Housing in the Netherlands.
In preparation of a workshop of the ‘militant research’ network on the socialisation of housing) for the retakethe.city event in Amsterdam October 25…
There is no other country that has… Read more …
Oct 25-27: ReTakeTheCity (Amsterdam)
We want to use the last weekend of October in Wijkcentrum Ru Pare to make plans for taking back the city. We have devised a programme of workshops, debates and… Read more …
Berlin October 3: Cap it right, then expropriate
Cap it right, then expropriate – red card for speculation!
Renters of Berlin, we’ve begun to win. After years of protesting, we’ve forced real solutions to rent madness onto the… Read more …
PropTech, spéculateurs et expulseurs 2.0 : bas les pattes!
Pas touche à nos quartiers, à nos logements, ni à nos vies!… Read more …
PropTech, speculators and expellers 2.0 : hands off!
Keep out of our neighborhoods, our housing, or our lives!… Read more …