November 2011


Contents:
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  • Chronicle: Magnus Hammar
    'Young Adults matter, here and there'
  • U.K; What future for social housing?
  • Report from Tenant´s Day in Brussels
    Little action on housing for young people
  • IUT protests against evictions in the UK
  • Housing and the EU - current issues
  • Norway goes for homeownership
  • Provivienda, housing solution in Spain
  • Private rental sector, increased importance
  • Stockholm protests against privatisations
  • Canada, Toronto, ground zero for renters
  • Japan coping with disasters
  • South Africa with a an aspiration to house all


    GT November 2011 in pdf
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July 2011                                                                     


Contents:
  • Chronicle by Heidrun Clausen, DMB
    'German youths need new and fair
    housing'
  • Young adults´rights to housing of                 GTjune2011_Omslag
    their own, by Sven Bergenstrċhle
  • USA: Renewed importance of
    rental housing
  • Japan, and young adults
  • Scotland, with a right-to-housing
    by 2012
  • Canada, no-fault policy on bed-bugs
  • Armenia, suffering from political
    and nature disasters
  • Bulgaria, with a long tradition of
    homeownership
  • Australia, Canberra
  • New Zealand and demand for rentals
  • Croatian Union of Tenants, 20 years
  • Czech Republic deregulates rents
  • International Tenants´ Day


    GT July 2011, ENG, in pdf
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March 2011GTMarch_2011


Contents:
  • Chronicle by Michelle Reid, Chief Executive
    of TPAS England
  • Affordable rental housing for the Young
    - IUT theme 2011
  • Sweden, and housing for the young
  • Finland, with good housing for all?
  • Living in Paris
  • Polish tenants unite!
  • Housing in Spain, and about FAVIBC
  • MVÖ, Austria, 1911-2011
  • CTO, tenants in Cleveland, Ohio USA
  • Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • New book on rental housing and tenants
    in Russia
  • Victoria, Australia, from TUV Melbourne
  • UK tenants lack the force of tenants´ voice on mass


    GT March 2011, ENG, in pdf
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November  2010GTomslagNov2010


Contents:
  • Chronicle by IUT President S. Bergenstrċhle
  • Death of Social Housing in England?
  • Report from IUT congress in Prague
  • Housing for an ageing generation
  • Follow up on the 'Dutch case'
  • Evictions in Kenya
  • At what Cost? Reflection by an Aussi tenant
  • Stark contrasts in Latvia
  • Housing in Croatia
  • Revitalizing social housing in Hungary
  • Karl Marx Hof 80 years, and Notices


    GT November 2010, ENG, in pdf
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May 2010OmslagGT_maj


Contents:
  • Greetings from Russia!
  • Spaced out in the UK
  • IUT congress in Prague
  • Congress theme: Affordable housing,
    does such exist? Facts & figures
  • Snapshots from Australia
  • EU, its Commission and its cases
  • EU and Urban Intergroup
  • Poland, and new threatening laws
  • Albania, a country in transition
  • Switzerland, from Geneva and Zürich
  • and Notices


    GT May 2010, ENG, in pdf
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    Русский вариант

 

 


December 2009

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  • Magnus Hammar; Tunnel vision and my
    top 5
  • IUT congress 2010, in Prague
  • Report from International Tenants Day 2009, in Brussels
  • London, one of Europes´ most expensive cities
  • Right to Housing in France, South Africa and in Scotland
  • Croatia
  • Australia, NSW; Ending tenancies
  • Australia, tenant protection in Tasmania 
  • Macedonia, in the heart of the Balkans


    GT December 2009 in pdf
    In French, en français

 


September 2009OmslagGTSept2009

Contents:

  • Chronicle: Social housing in a true social Europe
  • Denmark, and LLO
  • IUT Brussels, and the EU
  • Tenant's Milestones, and new € available for housing
  • Housing on the UN agenda
  • Cautious optimism in the USA
  • French tenants facing harder times
  • DMB, the voice of German tenants
  • Japan, and illegal renewal fees
  • Poland, with a housing legacy from WW II

GT September 2009 in pdf
In French, en français

 


April 2009

Contents:GT_OmslagApril2009

  • Chronicle: Freedom to choose - for a few
  • Financial crises ad effects on rental housing
  • NL: Woonbond signs energy contract
  • Canada: Olympic effects
  • US tenants movement and NAHT
  • Ireland, with few tenants
  • New Zealand
  • Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Tanzania, and IUT Focal Point in Africa
  • Feantsa vs. Slovenia
  • China and affordable housing
  • KFTRA, England
  • England, a new tenant's voice and TSA.


       GT April 2009 in pdf

 


 

December 2008OmslagGTdecember2008

Contents:

  • Chronicle: Time of Crisis or Opportunities
  • Tenants´ Day in the EU Parliament
  • Scotland and the Right to Housing
  • Italy and increasing homelessness
  • Hong Kong
  • Living in Murmansk, Russia
  • Polish tenants take to the streets
  • Australia; Youth homelessness
  • South Africa, Rehabilitation of social housing
  • Istanbul, Turkey
  • Nairobi, being a tenant in Nairobi
  • England: dark clouds over social housing
  • Norway: High costs of living


    GT December 2008 in pdf

 

September 2008GTSept2008

Contents:

  • Build affordable housing now!              
  • News from IUT EU liaison office in Brussels       
  • San Francisco and housing battle
  • TAROE England
  • Canada - Vancouver
  • Slovakia, with hardly any rentals
  • Brussels, capital of Europe
  • Sweden, with rental housing at crossroads
  • Australia, will the new government improve housing?

    GT September 2008 in pdf






April 2008

Contents:

  • Chronicle: IUT in the capital of Europe
  • Sitting Tenants in CEE-region
  • Poland, Nowa Huta and its residents
  • Latvia: transition with high human costs
  • Macedonia
  • Seamy side of Brussels
  • Norway, where rental housing is overlooked
  • Tenants in N.Y. Harlem
  • Mexico City
  • Liberia, a country of renters
  • Fuel poverty in the UK

    GT April 2008 in pdf

 


November 2007

Theme: IUT Congress
Contents:
  • Chronicle: Alexandra Pascalidou
    "Ownership does not always make you happier"
  • Success story from Holland
  • Italy: Not a crime to occupy an empty dwelling
  • Canada: Lack of affordable housing
  • "Young adults" in Sweden care about their future
  • Brasilia - one of it's kind!
  • Massive campaign by Swedish Union of Tenants.
  • IUT Congress in Berlin, September 20-23
  • Switzerland: No 1, but there are shortcomings!

    GT November 2007 in pdf

 


June 2007

Theme: Russia
and Privatisation of Rental Housing
Contents:
  • Chronicle: A better life in Russia for my son
    by Prof. Yelena Shomina, Moscow
  • Article: Housing in Moscow
  • Germany: Peoples´s initiative saved municipal housing
  • New leadership in the DMB, Germany
  • Stockholm´s new political majority sells the public housing stock
  • How to prevent further riots in Paris
  • Wales, U.K., seeks to transfer its housing stock
  • South Africa; Abused women and children find shelter
  • About IUT Congress 2007, and notices

    GT June 2007 in pdf

 


January 2007

Theme: Australia
Contents:
  • Penny Carr, TUQ: Outdated tenancy laws in Australia
  • Prof. Terry Burke: Australian housing in context
  • Weak security of tenure in Australia
  • Canberra, ACT
  • Western Australia, TAS
  • Victoria, TUV
  • Queensland and 20 years of tenant protection
  • Shortcomings in Australian housing conditions; UN Special Rapporteur
  • About IUT Congress 2007, and notices


    January 2007 in pdf

 


September 2006

Theme: Stop Evictions
Contents:
  • Chronicle: Mr C. Sommaruga ASLOCA
  • IUT/IAI Statement on Evictions
  • UN Rapporteur on Adequate Housing:
    Forced evictions are gross violation
  • Croatian tenants being evicted
  • Reports on evictions in Europe
  • Riots in Paris
  • Finland: Central Union of Tenants
  • UN World Urban Forum III
  • Life in a kommunalka, S:t Petersburg
  • Uganda and privatisation
  • New Literature


    GT September 2006 in pdf

 


April 2006

Contents:
  • The EU has no housing policy, or?
  • Present EU cases on housing
  • operating costs in Germany
  • Housing Act in England
  • A letter from Poland.
  • New Jersey tenants still fighting!
  • Illinois Tenants Union
  • Arizona tenants fight club
  • Rents in the Big Apple
  • NFTMO - tenant management in the UK
  • Norwegian Somalis

GT April 2006 in pdf

 

 


December 2005

Contents:
Theme: IUT 80 years
  • The beginning...
  • History of the tenant movement in
    - Great Britain
    - Austria
    - Sweden
    - US
    - from Germany, Norway, Denmark, Czech Rep. and France
  • Org. of Civic Rights, South Africa - new IUT member
  • Housing problems in Brussels
  • 6-fold rent increases in Krakow, Poland
  • InfoCentre, Belgrade Serbia.

GT December 2005 in pdf

 


August 2005

Contents:
  • ASB and actions in the Netherlands
  • Housing renovation in Canada
  • Tenants in Tanzania
  • Eroded tenement houses in Budapest
  • Is there a future for Dutch social housing?
  • New Zealand: 1000 new state homes.
  • German Tenants´Association manages to negotiate for shorter notice to quit!
  • Serbia, country and housing in transition.
  • Romania and a review of the housing market.
  • Notices: Hong Kong, Sweden, Argentina, Australia and Poland.

GT August 2005 in pdf

 


March  2005

Contents:
Theme: Anti Social Behaviour -ASB
  • What is ASB?
  • ASB in England and elsewhere
  • ASB observation in France
  • IUT CEE in Ljubljana
  • Housing on the EU agenda?
  • Housing in Latvia
  • South Korea
  • IUT and the Council of Europe
  • Vienna combats segregation
  • IUT and the Housing Ministers meeting in Prague
    Notices from Tanzania, Serbia and Germany

GT March 2005 in pdf-file

 


October 2004

Contents:
  • IUT Congress 2004
  • IUT Regional office in Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Housing in the US
  • Lisbon and gentrification
  • Housing subsidies - the Swedish model
  • Collective living in Kaliningrad, Russia.
  • EU influence on housing
  • New literature

GT October 2004 in pdf






April 2004

Contents:
Theme: South East Asia
  • Table of tenure forms (%) of tenure forms in Asian countries
  • 50 years of Public Housing in Hong Kong
  • Japan and company housing. Tenants in Tokyo.  
  • Short about housing in Malaysia, Taiwan and Singapore
  • Peoples´ Republic of China
  • Thailand
  • Extra: Housing in Vietnam

GT April 2004 in pdf

 


January 2004

Contents
  • Same old story, in Finland - by our guest colomnist
  • New Housing Centre in Prague
  • IUT Congress 2004
  • Greetings from Israel
  • Sustainable housing - realistic goal or fantasy?
  • What's IUT up to? ... in the UN, EU and in Zagreb
  • News from members

GT January 2004 in pdf

 


September 2003

Contents
 
  • Conference in Zagreb
  • New demand for affordable housing in Ireland
  • Nigeria, where tenants fear hoodlums and 450% rent increases
  • Swiss tenants say no - to an improved tenancy law!
  • Debate - reaction from the Slovenian Ministry of Housing, and a
    response from the tenants
  • IUT Congress in 2004
  • EU/Reduces rates of VAT on housing

GT September 2003 in pdf

 


April 2003

Contents
  • Selling public housing in Denmark?
  • Spanish men prefer a comfortable life with mum and dad
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina where tenants face new responsibilities
  • Switzerland has the highest rents in Europe
  • From bad to worse in Slovenia
  • Housing in the EU - an uneasy and unclear relationship?

GT April 2003 in pdf

 


December 2002

Theme: Australia/New Zealand
 
  • New IUT member from Slovenia
  • Indigenous people of Western Australia is poorly housed
  • Tenancy databases a threat in Australia and elsewhere
  • New-Zealand, where rental accomodation increases
  • European Housing statistics - a mess!
  • Switzerland, a country of watchmakers and tenants
  • Notices, and all the best for 2003 from the IUT Board!          

    GT December 2002 in pdf

September 2002

Theme: Segregation and integration

Contents

  • The situation for ethnic minorities in the Netherlands
  • Berlin and urban renewal in Kottbusser Tor
  • Safe haven for Bangladeshis in London
  • The wash house in Rinkeby, Sweden
  • NAHT, USA, fights for affordable housing
  • Privatisation, a global trend - now in Uganda
  • Can the rent be negotiated, the Swedish model

GT September 2002 in pdf


April  2002

Contents
  • Property restitution in central and eastern Europe
  • The rental stock in%
  • The housing situation in Romania
  • Restitution and housing in Poland
  • Housing in the Czech Republic and the story of Petr and Jana
  • Last in for privatisation - Russia
  • Homeowners or tenants in Moldova?

GT April 2002 in pdf


January 2002

Contents
  • EU and Housing
  • Rental housing statistics
  • Accommodation in Brussels - not for everyone
  • Black housing in England
  • Germany and a housing policy in retreat
  • Living in Austria

GT January 2002 in pdf


 

 


 
 

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