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• Urban Rights (Movements)

  Where will we live? – On the housing crisis in Britain

  9 January 2014, by MEEK James

  A housing shortage that has been building up for the past thirty years is reaching the point of crisis. The party in power, whose late 20^th-century figurehead, Margaret Thatcher, did so much to create the problem, is responding by separating off the economically least powerful and squeezing them (…)

• Urban Rights (Movements)

  Inhabitants Together, A World Assembly in 2011 to Gain the Right to Live

  6 May 2010, by IAI

  Inhabitants of the world united for the right to the city!This was determined in the Call, approved by the plenary Urban Social Forum of Rio , summarizing the deep sense which invigorated the participation of thousands of people, social leaders, inhabitants organizations, tenants, homeless, (…)

• Urban Rights (Movements)

  Call from Rio towards the World Assembly of Inhabitants (WSF Dakar 2011)

  25 March 2010, by Urban Social Forum

  All cities and rural areas are experiencing a structural crisis, resulting from the implementation of urban policies in favour of global capitalism, which is expressed through a variety of problems: the loss of the social function of cities; the commercial exploitation of economic, social, (…)

• Urban Rights (Movements)

  Urban Movements Building Convergences at the WSF 2009

  1 February 2009, by Movements

  The current financial crisis demonstrates the limits of capitalism, the hazards of malign neglect in its insufficient regulation and the rush to posses and consume more.
  The financial crisis, with its manifold consequences, is just one of many threats to life in cities and human settlements (…)