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Background

The right to housing is one of the most basic human right ensuring human dignity.  It has been codified in a range of international and regional human rights instruments and many national constitutions and laws embody provisions of the right to housing. However, their concrete implementation remains unsatisfactory in many countries.

Mission statement

Housing Rights Watch is a European network of interdisciplinary groups of associations, lawyers and academics from various European countries who are committed to the promotion, protection and fulfillment of the right to housing to all. It seeks the realization of the right to every person to live in dignity and to have secure, adequate and affordable place to live. The network has been set up in Cardiff in November 2008 in order to facilitate exchange and mutual learning among housing rights experts and advocates.

Objectives

  • Share information on legislative and judicial initiatives (case-law database, judicial analysis, monitoring of normative outcomes);
  • Support judicial proceedings at local, national and international level ;
  • Monitor and intervene on the factual and systemic denial of  rights observed at various levels ; 
  • Monitor the development of the housing situation from a rights-based perspective ;
  • Support change in public policies at national and European level with the aim of better implementing the right to housing;
  • Support the setting up of national networks on the right to housing across Europe.

Correspondents

Balint Misetics  City is for All  Hungary
Christian Perl  BAWO  Austria
Guillem Fernandez  Associacio Prohabitatge  Spain

Idaver Memedov

 European Roma Rights Centre  Hungary
Jacopo Fiorentino  FioPSD/Avvocato di strada  Italy

Jamie Burton

 Doughty Street Chambers, London  UK
Joris Sprakel  University of Hague  the Netherlands
Katerina Hruba  Zvule Prava  Czech Republic
Kristián Straka  Právo na bývanie (Right to Housing)  Slovakia
Margarita Ilieva  Bulgarian Helsinki Committee  Bulgaria
Mateja Fajs  Association of Tenants in Slovenia  Slovenia
Nicolas Bernard  Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis  Belgium
Noria Derdek  Jurislogment  France
Padraic Kenna  National University of Ireland  Ireland

Steve Povey

 Shelter Cymru Wales  UK

Activities

Annual Conference

Housing Rights: from Theory to Practice
Barcelona, Spain 6 May 2010

Hosts: University of Barcelona, Associació Prohabitatge, FEANTSA

The goal of the conference was to explore the theoretical background to housing rights at international, European and national level, to share experience on the practical implementation of housing rights and to provide a forum for existing and potential correspondents of the Housing Rights Watch network. For more information, please contact the conference webpage.

Housing Rights Watch meeting

A Housing Rights Watch meeting took place in Barcelona, Spain on 7 May 2010. The objective of the meeting was to discuss the priorities of the network and possible co-operation and action within the framework of Housing Rights Watch. The meeting was organised on the day after the Housing Rights Conference and was open to all participants interested in international action on housing rights. It was attended by 23 participants, including six existing correspondents of the network. Click here to see a photo of the meeting. 

Newsletter

Housing Rights Watch produces a newsletter three times a year with the aim of sharing information on legislative and judiciary initiatives, national and international provisions, examples of case law relevant to the right to housing.
Issue 1 May 2010 of the newsletter is available.

If you would like to be part of Housing Rights Watch or would like to sign up to the newsletter, publish an article, include information in it or just have a question or comment on Housing Rights Watch, please contact: dalma.fabian@feantsa.org