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We are an interdisciplinary European network of associations, lawyers and academics committed to promoting the #RightToHousing #Right2Housing #PovertyisNotaCrime #HomelesssBillofRights

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Koldo Casla @koldocasla.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Koldo Casla’s Appointment as UN Special Rapporteur Highlights New Research on Property, Housing and Social Rights cc @universityofessex.bsky.social & @elgarpublishing.bsky.social www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2...
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Koldo Casla Appointed UN Special Rapporteur on Housing | Essex Law School | Blog | University of Essex
Dr Koldo Casla’s appointment as UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing brings renewed attention to his new open access book on property, housing and social rights.
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Civio @civio.es · 08/04/2026
Investigamos los planes de vivienda protegida en alquiler al detalle y encontramos un modelo pensado para rentas medias y altas, que deja fuera a quienes más lo necesitan. Aquí una radiografía de cómo las políticas públicas de alquiler pueden acabar logrando justo lo contrario de lo que promueven.
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Alquiler de vivienda protegida: para rentas superiores a la media y a precio de mercado
Varias comunidades, con Madrid a la cabeza, marcan ingresos mínimos para arrendar vivienda protegida que en algunos casos llegan a superar los 2.000 euros mensuales y máximos de hasta 90.000 euros.
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Housing Rights Watch @rightohousing.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
🆕New edition of our #newsletter features an analysis of legal action following a municipal shelter closure in Badalona, Spain. The legal team secured injunctions requiring alternative #accommodation through proceedings to protect fundamental rights. www.housingrightswatch.org/content/proc...
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Observatori Metropolità de l'Habitatge de Barcelona (O-HB) 🍉 @ohb.cat · 28/01/2026
🏙️ Saps quins tipus de propietaris hi ha a la ciutat de #Barcelona? El 96,3% del total de propietaris són persones físiques i concentren el 84,5% dels #habitatges. En canvi, el 3,7% són persones jurídiques i acumulen un 15,2% del parc 📈 🔗 Llegeix l’informe: www.ohb.cat/project/estr...
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 17/12/2025
In Memory of Gyula Balog (1959-2025), an inspiring housing rights and anti-poverty activist Here is a brief reflection on behalf of @hrw.org to express our condolences, as Gyula’s friends and colleagues lay him to rest today in Budapest. Rest in power, Gyula bacsi! www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...
Gyula Balog (1959-2025), housing rights and anti-poverty activist, speaking with Human Rights Watch at his home in Budapest, November 2025. On the wall is a map of Amsterdam Island, part of a remote archipelago in the southern Indian ocean, about which Balog was writing a novel.
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Koldo Casla @koldocasla.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
"Litigation on the Progressive Realisation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Under What Conditions May It Be Strategic?" A paper co-produced by a team of human rights academics and practitioners. Supported by @slsauk.bsky.social cbeh.cat/wp-content/u... cc @essexhrc.bsky.social
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Housing Rights Watch @rightohousing.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Over half of #Barcelona residents blame tourist apartments for neighbourhood tension #right2housing
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Housing Rights Watch @rightohousing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
🏠 Want to stay updated on housing rights across Europe? Subscribe to our newsletter for news, actions & insights! 📩 Sign up now: bit.ly/4hJ9RXC 🌐 housingrightswatch.org #HousingRights #SocialJustice #Right2Housing
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Housing Rights Watch @rightohousing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
This week, Observatori DESCA presented a report to the Spanish Ministry of Consumer Affairs on unfair terms in the housing market (in Spanish). Can consumer law advance the #right2housing? You can find the report here 👉 bit.ly/46hXYEh
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Cláusulas y prácticas abusivas de los contratos de alquiler y compraventa de vivienda
El presente informe tiene por objeto estudiar la protección de los consumidores y usuarios en el marco de las cláusulas y prácticas abusivas que se dan en los contratos de alquiler y compraventa de vi...
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Housing Rights Watch @rightohousing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
🏡New report on the experience of several European cities in managing short-term rentals by @ohb.cat 21/10/2025 #Right2housing
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Housing Rights Watch @rightohousing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
🏠 Want to stay updated on housing rights across Europe? Subscribe to our newsletter for news, actions & insights! 📩 Sign up now: bit.ly/4hJ9RXC 🌐 housingrightswatch.org #HousingRights #SocialJustice #Right2Housing
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 19/09/2025
Germany’s government is set to make major social security cuts, and replace the only recently-created “Citizen’s Income” with a more punitive “New Income for Jobseekers”. These plans will increase poverty. Human rights can help guide the debate back to what matters. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
A single mother in low-wage work shows her monthly household budget to Human Rights Watch during an interview, Baden-Württemberg, February 2023.
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 19/09/2025
Thank you @koldocasla.bsky.social and University of Essex and Barcelona colleagues, for the opportunity to discuss strategic litigation and other avenues to make progress in realizing ESC rights. Great to meet and work with @observadesca.bsky.social @rightohousing.bsky.social @gentium.bsky.social
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Generation Rent @generationrent.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
For decades, private landlords have had free rein to set rents as they please. The result? Skyrocketing prices and renters pushed to breaking point. There's still time to sign our letter to Angela Rayner, urging the Gov to take action on unfair rent hikes ⬇️ www.generationrent.org/campaign/tel...
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Tell the Secretary of State for Housing we need action on unfair rent rises - Generation Rent
Letter: Tell Angela Rayner, the Secretary of State for Housing, we need action on unfair rent rises Dear Angela Rayner,  We are private renters and supporters in England and we […]
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Housing Rights Watch @rightohousing.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
📧 New issue of www.housingrightswatch.org#newsletter, this time featuring an analysis entitled ‘Stable, constant and secure access to adequate #energy: the case of Cañada Real in #Madrid’: www.housingrightswatch.org/content/stab...
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EU Court of Justice @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
#ECJ: A Member State may not plead an unforeseeable influx of applicants for international protection in order to evade its obligation to cover #asylum seekers’ basic needs 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
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Housing Rights Watch @rightohousing.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
📧 New issue of www.housingrightswatch.org#newsletter, this time featuring an analysis entitled ‘Stable, constant and secure access to adequate #energy: the case of Cañada Real in #Madrid’: www.housingrightswatch.org/content/stab...
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National Homelessness Law Center @homelesslaw.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Hey Bluesky enjoyers, we're here now. Follow and subscribe to get the latest on the fight to solve homelessness with housing and support. homelesslaw.org/subscribe/
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Housing Rights Watch @rightohousing.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
WEBINAR | @feantsa.bsky.social Repurposing vacant spaces to create housing solutions? 🗓️Join us on 21 May at 10:00 am CEST for the launch of our new report exploring innovative ways to turn empty spaces into opportunity. 🔗 Register : bit.ly/4kcZueE #RightToHousing #VacantSpaces
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Housing Rights Watch @rightohousing.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
WEBINAR | @feantsa.bsky.social Repurposing vacant spaces to create housing solutions? 🗓️Join us on 21 May at 10:00 am CEST for the launch of our new report exploring innovative ways to turn empty spaces into opportunity. 🔗 Register : bit.ly/4kcZueE #RightToHousing #VacantSpaces
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European Action Coalition @housingnotprofit.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
EAC #HousingActionDays Webinar 💻 📢 PARALLEL WORLDS Demands of grassroots movements and the EU plan for affordable housing 📌 Saturday, April 26, 5 pm CET facebook.com/events/18751... Speakers are:
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Observatori DESCA @observadesca.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
📣✊We will be joining @pahbarcelona.bsky.social along other social movements tomorrow at 6PM at Plaça Universitat in Barcelona, come and join us! #OurHomesOurPower @maketheshift.bsky.social @rightohousing.bsky.social @inquilinatomad.bsky.social @sindicatlloguer.bsky.social
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 24/04/2025
The Trump administration’s first 100 days in office have been a relentless barrage of actions that violate, threaten, or undermine human rights. To illustrate the breadth and depth of damage, HRW has compiled 100 harmful actions during these 100 days ⤵️
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US: Trump’s First 100 Days an Assault on Rights
The Trump administration’s first 100 days in office have been a relentless barrage of actions that violate, threaten, or undermine the human rights of people in the United States and abroad.
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European Action Coalition @housingnotprofit.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Get ready for #had2025 ! If you would like to participate in global Housing Action Days, but are unsure if you have the capacity or you don't have an idea what you could do, get inspired by some actions from last year.
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 07/04/2025
📢 Join us and 570+ organisations from across the EU and beyond: We call on MEPs to address unprecedented attacks on NGOs in the European Parliament and ensure citizens’ voices are heard ‼️ 📄 Read our statement: civilsocietyeurope.eu/attacks-on-n... #StopAttackingNGOs
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Housing Rights Watch @rightohousing.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
✍️We'll be publishing our newsletter soon. Sign up if you don't want to miss it! 📧On va bientôt publier notre newsletter. Inscrivez-vous pour ne pas la louper. www.housingrightswatch.org
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Housing Rights Watch @rightohousing.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🚨 Major legal development on Denmark's 'ghetto package' Advocate General Ćapeta's opinion confirms: ⚖️ "Non-western" background constitutes ethnic origin, the law is #discriminatory in breach of Directive. Read the analysis by Susheela Math, Open Society Justice Initiative: 🔗https://bit.ly/4j4nAHV
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Housing Rights Watch @rightohousing.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🚨 Major legal development on Denmark's 'ghetto package' Advocate General Ćapeta's opinion confirms: ⚖️ "Non-western" background constitutes ethnic origin, the law is #discriminatory in breach of Directive. Read the analysis by Susheela Math, Open Society Justice Initiative: 🔗https://bit.ly/4j4nAHV
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Housing Rights Watch @rightohousing.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
ECSR Review on cost-of-living crisis 'Rising housing costs and an increasing risk of #homelessness are critical issues. The ECSR stresses that the Charter requires States to ensure that rents are affordable & that adequate housing benefits are adequate in relation to housing costs' bit.ly/3FRLw2F
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The European Committee of Social Rights publishes its review on Social Rights and Cost of Living Crisis
Strasbourg 19/03/2024
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 26/02/2025
People must have access to stable, consistent and safe access to adequate energy, says the @coe.int’s European Committee of #SocialRights in a landmark decision 👇 🔗 www.coe.int/en/web/porta... #HumanRights #EuropeanSocialCharter
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Power outages in Madrid shantytown: European Committee of Social Rights concludes that energy poverty breaches Social Charter - Portal - www.coe.int
European Committee of Social Right Strasbourg 26 February 2025
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FEANTSA @feantsa.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
❗ The decision of the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) of the Council of Europe in the Complaint No. 203/2021, FEANTSA v. Belgium, is now public. It confirms serious violations of the European Social Charter in relation to the right to #housing in the Flemish region of Belgium.
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Housing Rights Watch @rightohousing.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The decision in @FEANTSA v. Belgium is now public. Their press release highlights the urgent need for #housing policies that effectively tackle #homelessness and prioritise the needs of vulnerable groups. #woonzaak www.feantsa.org/en/press-rel... The decision: hudoc.esc.coe.int/fre/?i=cc-20...
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Cody Hochstenbach @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Interessant: het Europees Comité voor Sociale Rechten stelt de Vlaamse "Woonzaak" in het gelijk. "De Vlaamse regering doet niet genoeg om de betaalbaarheid van woningen voor kwetsbare groepen aan te pakken" www.demorgen.be/nieuws/europ...
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Europa velt vernietigend oordeel over Vlaamse woonbeleid: ‘We moeten steun voor mensen die een woning willen kopen afbouwen’
Te weinig sociale woningen en onvoldoende inspanningen om de kwaliteit van huurwoningen op te krikken. Europa velt een vernietigend oordeel over het Vlaamse woonbeleid. ‘We moeten de steun voor mensen...
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 18/03/2025
Fake news has become a powerful tool in the hands of the right-wing in the European Parliament. Since early 2024 two myths have been spread about EU funding of NGOs. They have no substance, but still lay the ground for debate and proposals Read our article! corporateeurope.org/en/2025/03/f...
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False alarm: fake news and the right fuel attack on NGOs
Documents show the European Commission initiated its attacks on civil society funding due to pressure from right wing MEPs early 2024, even if the institution must have known their arguments were fals...
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 17/03/2025
In our view, attacks by the European Parliament and Commission on the funding of NGOs are also part of this general European trend of democratic backsliding. Get the low down here: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/01/e... and watch this space for more...
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European right-wing on a mission to silence NGOs
A no-nonsense guide to the disinformation underpinning the conservative campaign to shrink political and democratic space for critical NGOs. Today, it is about stopping EU-funding, but they want more ...
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FEANTSA @feantsa.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Have you submitted your abstract yet❓ The call for abstracts for the 19th European Research Conference on #Homelessness closes next Saturday, 15th March. Don't miss the chance to present your research at Europe’s leading conference on homelessness! 🔗 Submission instructions: bit.ly/4i3XDaL
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FEANTSA @feantsa.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The latest issue of the European Journal of Homelessness is now available❗ Providing critical analysis for policy makers, practitioners, researchers, and academics, the journal covers a wide range of topics on #homelessness and housing exclusion. Read it and download it here:🖇️ bit.ly/EJH18-2
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FEANTSA @feantsa.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🏠 New FEANTSA Policy Brief: The Dos and Don'ts of Modular Housing 🗺️In this policy brief, we explore the dos and don’ts of modular housing and what pre requisites would help prevent its use as a distinctly inadequate and stigmatising form of housing.
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FEANTSA @feantsa.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Registrations are now open for the FEANTSA Forum2025 in Athens! 🏛️ Join us on May 13-14 for the largest event on homelessness in Europe. Connect with experts, service providers, policymakers, and more. 🎫 Register & see the full programme: bit.ly/FEANTSAForum25
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European Roma Rights Centre @romarights.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
⚡ A European rights committee rules that access to energy is essential for fundamental rights & states like Spain cannot outsource human rights duties to private utilities. 🏠 FEANTSA urges immediate electricity restoration for Cañada Real’s energy-poor residents. 🔗 shorturl.at/hirPF
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Housing Rights Watch @rightohousing.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
European Court of Justice rules out forced integration of #immigrants in the EU #ghettopackage www.brusselstimes.com/1456826/euro...
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European court rules out forced integration of immigrants in the EU
"The division between ‘Western’ and ‘non-Western’ immigrants and their descendants is based on an ethnic criterion."
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Housing Rights Watch @rightohousing.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The repeated power cuts suffered by the 4,500 residents of #CañadaReal, a settlement south of Madrid, constitute a violation of the European Social Charter, the Council of Europe's European Committee of Social Rights said on Wednesday #right2housing #right2energy www.euractiv.com/section/poli...
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Spain under fire for neglecting shanty town near Madrid - Euractiv
Spain is depriving these 4,500 people of their basic rights and pushing them into poverty and social exclusion, the Council of Europe's social rights body said.
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Housing Rights Watch @rightohousing.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
In case you missed ECSR's decision: 'stable, consistent and secure access to adequate energy" is a prerequisite for, and a key element of, enjoyment of the rights to #housing, #health, #education, and protection against poverty and social exclusion under the European Social Charter. #right2energy
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FEANTSA @feantsa.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
📢 Call for Abstracts! 19th European Research Conference on Homelessness Submit your abstract by March 15 for a chance to be featured at Europe's leading research event on homelessness. This year, co-organised by the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. 📝 bit.ly/4i3XDaL
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Koldo Casla @koldocasla.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Very proud of my friends at @grippuk.bsky.social and @atd4thworld.bsky.social who are in Geneva today, telling the UN about what poverty feels like in the UK in our times. #CESCR2025 Record number of submissions. UN folks, listen to them.
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Housing Rights Watch @rightohousing.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
New report available by the Mr. Balakrishnan Rajagopal, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing : "Towards a just approach to the global housing crisis and migrants", to be presented to the UNHRC in March 2025. #right2housing docs.un.org/A/HRC/58/50
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Housing Rights Watch @rightohousing.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
🗓️Save the date ! Monday 17 February at 7pm 👩‍⚖️ In France, 40 associations fighting against housing exclusion take the state to court! 📢Webinar presenting the case by the associations, lawyers and others working on it for months. Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Housing Rights Watch @rightohousing.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Merci aux organisateurs du Forum du sans-abrisme, l'Observatoire de la précarité de la HETSL et le Collectif 43m2, pour son invitation! Hâte d'échanger avec vous à Lausanne sur les politiques sécuritaires et la criminalisation de la pauvreté #LaPauvretéNestPasUnCrime #SansAbriNonCoupable
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Opportunity Green @opportunitygreen.org · 27/01/2025
💡New legal submission! OG and @maketheshift.bsky.social wrote to the UN CESCR on energy efficiency, heating, and economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights in the UK #Housing sector. 🔌 Read on!👇 🧵1/5 #GreenSky #ClimateSky #LawSky #EnergySky #PublicHealth www.opportunitygreen.org/publication-...
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Publication: UN CESCR submission on UK housing, human rights and climate — Opportunity Green
Opportunity Green and The Shift write a submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on the critical intersection between energy efficiency, the decarbonisation of home heati...
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Housing Rights Watch @rightohousing.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
In a landmark ruling, the European Committee of Social Rights has unequivocally condemned the Czech Republic for its inadequate housing policy, deeming it a violation of the European Social Charter. 📄
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