News:

• Sitting Tenants and Housing rights/Droit au logement
Landmark ruling by the Council of Europe, ECSR, in the case of FEANTSA vs. Slovenia: 53/2008
In a decision which became public on 1 February 2010, the European Committee of Social Rights, ECSR, found that reforms of the Slovenian Government in the field of housing have placed tenants in dwellings that were restituted to their former private owners in a precarious situation in breach of Article 31 of the Revised Charter.
- Pressrelease, in English
- Communiqué de presse, en français.
- Summary, by the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR), January 2010
- Decision on the Merits, Sept 8, 2009

More info

• June 30, 2009: Recommendation of the Commissioner for Human Rights on the implementation of the right to housing.
- as pdf

• IUT and the European Council.

• European Social Charter, revised 1996
(article 31 - Right to housing)

• Which states have ratified the European Social Charter?

• Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
(Article 8 – Right to respect for private and family life)

•Trends in housing policy and the impact to access to housing,1998

- FEANTSA vs. Slovenia: February 26, 2009: Submission of the Slovenian government (reaction/reply to the complaint). Case doc. 2
- Kozacioğlu vs. Turkey: Grand Chamber Judgement, by Feb. 2, 2009

Cases:

• Sweden: A human right to put satellite dish on housing façade. Swedish Union of Tenants wins case in the European Court of Human Rights. Judgement of December 16, 2008
- The official Judgement

• FEANTSA vs. Slovenia:
Collective complaint on the situation of tenants of flats in denationalised buildings.
The complaint was registered on 28 August 2008. The complainant organisation pleads a violation of Articles 31 (right to housing) and 16 (the right of the family to social, legal and economic protection), read alone or in conjunction with Article E (non discrimination) of the Revised Charter. In support of its request, the complainant organisation alleges that a vulnerable group of persons occupying denationalised flats in the Republic of Slovenia have been deprived of their occupancy titles and subjected to eviction. As the persons concerned were denied access to alternative housing in the long term, they have now become homeless. These measures have also resulted in housing problems for the families of the evicted persons.

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