A manifesto for 8 March (2021 – Romania)The Barricade
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Category: Housing
Ruse: Little Manhattan in the Balkans
Why does Bulgaria need a right to housing movement? And what are the dimensions of the housing issue in one of the big Bulgarian cities?David BissetDavid Bisset is a specialist in child poverty and deprivation. He is one of the founders of Equilibrium, which is one of the leading social care
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Organizing for Housing Justice during the Covid-19 pandemic
A report by organizations from 18 countries in EuropeThe Barricade
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Humanitarian, Ecological and Housing Crisis in the Pata Rât area of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Input for report on COVID-19 and right to housing, issued by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing The Barricade
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The Right to the City. Urban Commons and Sustainable Cities
Why the cities are preferred places for Commons initiatives?The Barricade
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The housing market has no ethics, therefore it must be limited
An interview with 42-year old German doctor Sebastian Roos, who is an activist with the right to housing movement in Berlin, about the need for communalisation of housing in the German capital, about the reaction to the movement’s efforts to gain ground in the confrontation with private housing companies and
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[VIDEO] Reprivatization in Poland or how crooks massively take over schools, hospital and houses
The Barricade sat down with the Polish lawyer and activist Beata Siemieniako about the criminal injustice of the so called reprivatization process in Poland. She wrote about her experience in the field of organizing social resistance against it in the book she recently published Reprivatizing Poland. Boyan StanislavskiBulgarian and Polish
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The “Hunger Games” of Eastern Europe – Bulgarian “socialists” protest against social housing
Weird events have once again transpired on the outskirts of Europe. In Gorna Oryahovitsa, a provincial Bulgarian town, people have been up in arms over a social housing project out of fear it would become… a home for the poor. And to make it even weirder – the Bulgarian Socialist
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Lorand Szakacs: The group „Right to the City” fights against stigmatisation of the poor
What needs to be done in Romania where the right to housing is an ever more important issue, while homeless people and beggars become more and more in numbers in the richest cities.Vladimir MitevVladimir Mitev is a Bulgarian-Romanian journalist based in Rousse, a town on the very border between the
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