Housing

Whose Home Is This? At Least 55,625 Properties Under the Hammer in Real Estate Auctions — and Counting

9 August 2021 - by Sotiris Sideris

A data-driven research into housing financialization in Greece and the restructuring of the country by the markets, accompanied by an open dataset. The home of a six-member family in Marathonas was to be auctioned off online on September 18 (...)
De qué manera la crisis de la deuda privada y pública ha agravado el problema de la vivienda en la Unión Europea

9 de junio de 2021 - por Eric Toussaint, Eva Betavatzi

Resumen El incremento de los préstamos hipotecarios en los países europeos desde la década de 1990 es un síntoma de la decisión política de empujar a los hogares a la compra en lugar del alquiler en el mercado de la vivienda. Los bancos se (...)
How Private and Public Debt Crises Exacerbate Housing Problems in the EU

9 June 2021 - by Eric Toussaint, Eva Betavatzi

Abstract The increase in mortgage lending in European countries since the 1990s’ is symptomatic of a political determination to push households into buying rather than renting on the housing market. Banks benefit from this as it allows them not (...)
Call for the Housing Action Day on 27 and 28 March 2021

26 March 2021 - by Collective

The Housing Action Day launched by the European Action Coalition for the right to Housing and the City will take place in 75 European cities! For more information on the mobilisations in Europe: https://housingnotprofit.org/housing-action-day/ (...)
Homeownership, poverty, and legislative pitfalls in Romania

2 February 2021 - by Ioana Florea, Enikő Vincze

There is a myth about the Romanians being “natural” homeowners. It was propagated by the dominant right-wing anti-communist ideology after 1990, in an effort to legitimise the private property market as the only housing solution and to (...)
UK: In the shadow of student rent strikes

11 January 2021 - by Robert Firth

Outside the media fanfare surrounding the recent wave of university-based militancy, one community’s fight against developers goes on. Robert Firth reports On Manchester’s Oxford Road, in the city’s university district, there is a building that (...)
Sri Lanka: An argument for cancelling the household debt

23 November 2020 - by Amali Wedagedara

Women affected by microloans in Sri Lanka have been mobilising for debt cancellation since a couple of years. The complexity of the agricultural debt problem and the attractiveness of the idea of debt abolition made it a popular campaign slogan (...)
Fighting the actors of financialization and prohibiting profit on illegitimate private and public debt

22 September 2020 - by CADTM, Collective, Virginie de Romanet, Renaud Vivien, PAH , Antonio Gambini , ACiDe, Vicente Losada, Eva Betavatzi, Gilles Grégoire, Spanish Platform against vulture funds, Mats Lucia Bayer, Walter Actis, Ángel del Castillo, Mari Ángeles Bueno, Roberto Moreno, Miguel Vázquez, Pedro Martin Heras

In January 2020, the “Package of common demands on debt and the need for citizens’ control of finance at the european level”, coordinated by CADTM, was published. This document was written collectively by activists of nearly fifteen collectives and (...)
Haiti 10 years after the earthquake: the fight for social and economic justice continues

13 January 2020 - by Iolanda Fresnillo

On January 12 2010 an earthquake of magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale ripped through Port-au-Prince metropolitan area and other parts of Haiti. More than 1.5 million people, representing 15 per cent of the country’s population, were directly (...)
Repression, eviction and dispossession in New Democracy’s Greece

9 January 2020 - by Theodoros Karyotis

The latest attack on the squatting movement in Greece is the preamble for a massive operation of housing dispossession by the right-wing government. Dimitris Indares was still in his pyjamas when the police knocked on his door in the (...)
Regarding the “Hercules” plan, housing dispossession and squat evictions in Greece

20 December 2019 - by Theodoros Karyotis

The “Hercules” plan to sell €30 billion worth of non-performing (“red”) loans to funds, with the state acting as the guarantor, was approved a few days ago by the Greek parliament. Of course the loans will be sold at a fraction of the nominal price, (...)
Socialise Housing across Europe!

5 April 2019 - by Collective

Tomorrow, Saturday 6 April, many actions will take place across Europe to cry out loudly that it is time to stop the financialisation of housing and to defend the right to decent housing for all. CADTM supports these actions and signed this (...)