In 2009, an Albanian long-term resident in Italy (hence deserving equal treatment with EU citizens in the field of social assistance, as expressed by Directive 2003/109/EC on the status of long-term resident third-country nationals in the EU) was refused housing assistance for the first time since his first application in 2004. The funds for housing assistance for non-EU nationals, inferior to the funds available for EU citizens, were exhausted.
Human Rights Watch Report.
Hopeful home purchases during Spain’s economic boom have turned into a nightmare of foreclosures, evictions, and over-indebtedness amid the economic crisis.
FAMILIES AT RISK of homelessness are to protest outside in the capital today.
They will meet outside Dublin’s City Hall at 2pm this afternoon. The event was organised by Gwen Connell and Tamara Kearns, who say that the key demands of the protest will be for rent controls and for new homes to be built.
They will also call for an end to discrimination by landlords against those receiving rent allowance.
Some articles regarding current events in Verona, where new regulation is making life for the homeless population even harder:
This report sets out to document the criminalization of homelessness in Canada by exploring the relationship between homeless persons – in particular, street youth - and law enforcement officials (both the police and private security). Drawing from over 240 interviews with street youth in Toronto in 2009, as well as a review of official statistics on Ontario Safe Streets Act tickets in Toronto over the past 11 years, we explore the ways in which homelessness has been criminalized through a law and order agenda.
Source: Inside Housing
A homeless mother is appealing a landmark court decision allowing a local authority to use powers under the Localism Act to strike her off the housing register.
Penalising Homelessness
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