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Armenia

• Housing in Armenia
• Memorandum signed on social housing, April 2011

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Austria

• The Vienna Model in times of Austerity, 2012
• Financing housing in Austria, 2009
• Die Stadt als größter Vermieter, Wien!
• Austrian Federation of Limited-Profit Housing Associations (GBV
• Viennese housing, from the Vienna Insurance group
• Austria - National Report 2008, from BAWO, 2008
• Austria, development in the housing market, by  Nadja Shah, IUT congress 2007
• Internationalen Mieterinnen Kongress, Berlin 2007
• Financing of Social Housing in Austria, 2007
• Evictions in Austria, 2006
• Vienna Housing research, and events, 2005.
• Housing Research Program from the City of Vienna, 2003, including basic information about Austrian housing . In English and in German.
  

Links:

• Vienna / Wien: SRZ, Stadt und Regionalforschung

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Belgium

• Location d’un logement social en Région Wallonne, 2010

• Informations sur SDL, 2006

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Bosnia-Herzegovina

- Report on the Housing situation in 2003
- Report on the housing situation 2001 Bosnia-Herzegovina

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Croatia

• COHRE vs Croatia; A collective complaint to the Council of Europe, on Housing rights and evictions.
  September 2008
  
  
• Situation of sitting tenants in private flats, Croatia, by Marijan Babic at the IUT congress 2007

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Czech Republic

• Housing in Czech Rep, D. Grabmüllerova 2012
• Restitution, speculation and the lack of rental housing, Oct, 2011
• Social Exclusion and Housing in the Czech Republic, by Martina Mikeszová 2011.
• SON conf. in Prague, Febr 29 2008, in Czech only
• Report on the situation of Sitting Tenants in the Czech Republic, Dec. 2006
• Housing privatisation and housing management of privatised dwellings in CZ.
• Selected data on Housing, 2005, by the Ministry of Regional Development.
• Czech Gov. report 2004; Human Settlements profile.
• Country report 2003
• More information about IUT in Czech
• The rent law that wasn´t ! From The Prague Post, October 24, 2003
• Overview 2003 + about housing financing. OECD workshop, Dec. 2002.

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Denmark

• Successful renovation and integration; Gyldenrisparken, April, 2012
• Housing Report 2012, by Danish Tenants Association
• NBO - Housing Nordic
• Danes have the right to exchange their flats with other tenants; www.bytbolig.dk
• About LLO, the Danish tenants´ organisation, 2009
• All time high number of evictions in DK, Dec. 2008
• Danish Dwelling Stock, rent levels etc, 2007
• Country report from LLO, 2006
• Danish Assoc. of Tenants, PP-presentation 2005
• About housing in Denmark, 2001.
• The housing situation, according to the Danish Government

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England

• Private rented sector numbers equal social housing, Febr. 2013

• England introduces fixed term tenancies, Jan. 2013
• Tenure in England and Wales, Dec. 2012
• The big shift - from owning to renting, Dec. 2012
• The Housing Report, Oct. 2011 
• English Housing Survey July 2011
• New Social Housing Model, Dec. 13, 2010
• Details of the new 'affordable rents', Dec.  9
• Housing and Planning Statistics 2010, Dec. 2
• 2.5 million council houses sold off, Dec 2009
• Social Housing Sales to Sitting Tenants, England 2008-2009
• Tenants move away from right-to-buy in favour of renting, Sep. 21 2009
• Research paper; Growing up in social housing 1946 to the present day, 2009
• The London Housing Strategy, May 2009
• Policies to increase affordable housing in England, C.Whitehead, Dec 2008
• Role of Building Societies in the UK, Dec. 2008
• Renting in London: Know your Rights and Responsibilities. pdf    
• Renting in London ; Information about social and private renting, London city official website.
• Independent Housing Ombudsman: www.ihos.org.uk
  
  

  
  

History;
         - London's Great Experiment In Social Housing
         - The hidden history of British Tenants
         - Living in the East End of London

Represent tenants (except for the nationl tenant organisations in England):

• London: London Tenants Federation (LTF)

• Brent Private Tenants' Rights Group (Kilburn, London) www.bptrg.org/home  

• Camden Federation of Private Tenants
  www.cfpt.org.uk

• London Leasholders Network
  c/o Tower Hamlets Leaseholders Assoc.
  6 Watney Market, London E1 2PR, U.K.
  www.londonleaseholders.org.uk , tel/fax (020) 7263 7900
  

• Confederation of Co-operative Housing England
  Fairgate House,
  205 Kings Road,
  Tyseley,
  Birmingham B11 2AA
  www.cch.coop/comm/contact.html

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Estonia

- Country report 2003
- About housing in Estonia, 2001
- Housing Finance + housing overview. OECD workshop, Dec. 2002

General statistics

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Finland

• Fair Rent Practises, about renting in Finland
• Housing in Helsinki, 2012
• Housing in Helsinki, 2008,
• Facts and Figures about housing in Finland, 2010
• Housing market in Finland, 2010
• Housing today, Finland 2007
• Housing in Finland, from the Ministry of the Env. and Housing. 2005
• Central Tenants Union of Finland, report 2005
• Avregleringen av hyresmarknaden Finland, 2003
• Central Tenants Union of Finland, report 2003

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France

• Social Renting Housing, in France. World Bank 2010
• About social housing in France, Oct., 2010
• Les chiffres du Logement Social à Paris, 2009
• Tenants in HLM social housing. 2009
• About the CNL, the French tenant organisation, and new rental laws in France, Sept. 2009
• Housing Rights in France: Breakthrough ruling by the Council of Europe, June 5, 2008
• Housing report from CNL, 2007
• Housing report from CNL, 2006
• About Right to Housing, 2006
• About forced evictions in France, 2006
• CNL housing report, 2007
• CNL housing report, 2006
• French Housing situation, 2005 by CNL
• About evictions in France, 2006
  
• French Ministry of Housing and Urban affairs
• Housing and relocation in France

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Germany

• Housing in Germany - what you need to know as a tenant, 2012.
• Housing and Property Markets in Germany, 2011
• Why German rents, while Brits buy their homes
• Germany, where rental is king! 2011
• Housing profile of Berlin, 2007
  German Housing market and policy, 2010
• DMB fears impending apartment shortage, Dec. 31 2009
• Housing news from Germany. DMB report 2007
• Housing in Germany, privatisation etc. DMB report 2006
• The German law and evictions, 2006
• German Public Housing in Private Hands; NY Times. May 5, 2006
• Article in Global Tenant, Aug. 2005
• Housing in Germany, DMB report 2005
• Housing in Germany, DMB report 2003
• Housing statistics from the German Statistical Office, 2002
• Housing in Germany, DMB report 2001

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Greece

• Rent law in Greece

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Hungary

• Housing overview + about housing financing, OECD workshop Dec. 2002.

• Country report 2003

   

   

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Iceland

NBO - Housing Nordic

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Ireland

• Types of tenancy in Ireland, 2013
• From Census 2011, on Housing
• Irish Council for Social Housing
• Empty Social Housing, August 17, 2009
• Tenants First, Irish Housing policy, 2009
• 30 % increse in housing support, Dec. 2008
  
• Centre for Housing Research, Dublin
• Irish homeownership: myths and reality
• Top Ten Towns for Home Ownership
• Housing rights on Ireland, from Threshold:
  www.threshold.ie
  
  

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Italy

• Leaving home and housing prices. The experience of Italian youth emancipation Sept, 2011 

• Land for Social and Affordable Housing in Italy, 2009
• Property market in Italy, 2008
• Renting a House or Apartment in Italy, 2005
• Millions of Italians are being plunged into poverty by soaring rents, 2004
• Housing policies in Italy, by Antonio Tosi and Marco Cremaschi

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Latvia

• Results of the survey on private tenement houses, 2005
• Housing overview + about housing financing, OECD workshop Dec. 2002

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Lithuania

- Housing overview + about housing financing, OECD workshop, Dec. 2002

 

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Luxembourg
- Le Fonds du Logement

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Macedonia

- Quand le Libéralisme introduit la Précarité; 2010
- Social protection and social inclusion in the FYR    Macedonia, 2007
- Housing facts and figures, Macedonia 2006
- Report on poverty housing situation i Macedonia, 2004
- Report on the Macedonain housing situation, 2003
- Housing and population census 2002, pdf 550 Kb
- More information from MakeDom flyer!

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Malta

- Census of Population and Housing, 2005
- The Housing Authority

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Moldova

Country Profile on the Housing Sector of Republic of Moldova

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The Netherlands

• Gov.´s website on rental housing, Dec. 2012
• 1,2 million households receive subsidies, June 1, 2010
• Living in the Amsterdam Metropolis, from the City of Amsterdam
• Spatial Planning, Housing & Development, from the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment
• Amsterdam Ethnical Origin 2008, and expected
• Gov. financial measures to promote homeownership and housing affordability in the NL. Dec. 2008
• About Social Housing in the NL, from Social Housing Guarantee Fund,or WSW
• Country report from the Woonbond, 2008
• The Netherlands and evictions, 2006
• IUT "lobby-kantoor" in Brussel
• Dutch Housing in a nut-shell, from AEDES 2003
• 2004: Managing independent housing corporations: Towards a new social housing governance in the Netherlands?
• More information about the Nederlandse Woonbond
• Housing in the Netherlands, 2001
  
• Dutch Ministry of Housing, VROM
  - general data about NL, and housing.

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Northern Ireland

• Northern Irland Housing Market 2009-2012
• Polarisation by housing tenure, 2006

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Norway

From the newspaper, 2011:
- Total lack of housing policy, part 1 Dec. 8
- Total lack of housing policy, part 2, Dec. 16

• The Norwegian Housing Model, byJardar Sørvoll, Nov. 2011
  
• Oslo Municipal tenants site: Type and standard of dwelling, 2008: www.okl.no/kontakt.html
  
• Husbanken - The Norwegian State Housing Bank is the main instrument of the Norwegian Parliament, the Norwegian Government and the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development for the implementation of national housing policy
  
• NBO: Housing Nordic
• Setting Rental disputes in Norway (2010)
• My home is my castle, housing facts from Statistics Norway, 2008
• Rental market survey 2010
• Type of dwelling and tenure status for households, by type of household. 2007.
• Type and standard of dwelling for persons, 2007.
• Strong rent increases, Nov. 2008
• No housing for key workers in Oslo, Sept.3, 2008
• Rental market survey, 2007
• House Prices 2007
• Conflict resolution between landlords and tenants in Norway, 2007
• What is in the Norwegian Housing law, and what do people know? 2006
  The subject of this report concerns a study to determine how much the public know about the legal dos and don’ts in the rental market.
   For a summary in English, click here
• - The Norwegian Tenancy Act, in English.
  - in Norwegian

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Poland

• About the rental market, June 2009
• Warsaw: Warsaw Tenants Association blocks three evictions, June 4 2008
• Housing - division of responsibilities between national and local government, 2007
• 2004 report from PZL, with the background and about todays´ insecure
  situation for tenants.

• 2003: The impact of social housing on urban development – Polish case

• Housing overview + about housing financing, 2002

• Country report 2003

• 2002: 100 % rent increases in Poland

• 2001: Housing in Poland, 2001

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Portugal

Housing situation, August 2004

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Romania

• Designing a new Housing Law for Romania, 2009
• Homeowners´ Association - Habitat: Info about Urban regeneration, April 2007
• Country Profile on the Housing Sector of Romania, 2001

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Russia

• Putin extends free public housing privatization for two more years, 13/02/2013

• The Institute for Urban Economics (IUE)

• Homeowner associations in Russia after 2005 (2009)

• Housing policy and housing reform in Russia; IUT congress 2007 by Prof. Yelena Shomina
• About IUT, in Cyrrilic
• Russia, unregulated privatisation of housing threatens to worsen the housing crisis. From Global Tenant magazine, June 2007.
• The Soviet-Russian production of homelessness, 2003.

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Scotland

• Renting in Scotland, 2013
• About housing in Scotland, facts and figures, 2010
• Stock transfer of more than 2000 homes. August 30 2008
• Housing "right-to-buy" faces the axe in Scotland, October 21, 2007
  
• Scottish Youth Housing Network

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Serbia

• Housing report 2007
• Four Strategic Themes for the Housing Policy in Serbia. pdf-file 1 MB
  UN-HABITAT SIRP contribution to the National Housing Conference: Towards a New National Housing Policy for Serbia, 6-7 July 2006 Belgrade Sava Center.
  Click for pdf-file, 1 MB
  - in English
  - In Serbian

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Slovakia

• IUT expresses worries about tenants in restituted flats in Bratislava, January 22 2009
• Slovakia, a country without any rentals, Sept. 2008
• Social Housing in Slovakia, 2005
• Slovak housing laws; Tenants and landlords
•  Housing overview + about housing financing, OECD workshop, Dec. 2002
• Case Study on Social Housing - Slovakia: An attempt to revitilaze social rented housing.

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Slovenia

• Perspectives on the Public Housing sector in Slovenia; Mr Bojko Jerman, IUT congress 2007
• Statement of the IUT on the bad housing conditions in the Rep. of Slovenia. October 22, 2006: Insecure tenure and restitution hit tenants hard in Slovenia.
• Housing situation in 2006
• Housing overview + about housing financing, OECD workshop Dec. 2002.
• Country report 2003

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Spain

• Spanish housing policies, 2007

• Recent changes in Spanish housing policies: Subsidized owner-occupancy dwellings as a new tenure sector, 2007.
• UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing visited Spain in November 2007
• Report, in Spanish, from V de Vivenda a Barcelona   Click here!

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Sweden

Info about Swdish Union of Tenants SUT, Hyresgästföreningen, 2007
- Are you a tenant? (English)
- Asutko voukralla? (Finnish)
- Jeste li podstanar? (Serbian)
- A jeni qiramarrës? (Albanian)
- Jeste li Vi Zakupac stana? (Bosnian)
- Vous qui êtes locataire? (French)
- Jeste li stanar? (Croatian)
- Está de alquiler? (Spanish)
- Wohnen Sie zur Miete? (German)
- Вы квартиросъемщик? (Russian)
- Kiracý mýsýnýz? (Turkish)
- Ma waxaad tahay qof guri kiro ugu jira? (Somali)

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• Find out about tenant owned coop´s, 2013
• Figures from Statistics Sweden, May 2012
• Overheated or Stable - an analysis of the Swedish Housing market, 2010
• Tenants Rights and Responsibilities, Sweden 2008
• Swedish Building regulations
• Discrimination in the Housing Market of Stockholm, 2010.
• Stockholm, defends city housing sell-offs, 2010
• A new model for rent setting in Sweden, Nov. 2009
• Rents in Sweden 2008
• "Black market" flat leases sold openly on the Internet, Febr. 3
• Booklet -  The Swedish Union of Tenants, 2008
• Market rents, or not? Housing reform proposal stoke debate, April 18, 2008.
• State of Swedish Housing 2007, report.
• Sweden and evictions, 2006
• Swedish Union of Tenants, report 2005
• Housing expenditures, housing expenditures as a percentage of disposable income, 2007
• Info sheet 2005: The Swedish rent system - a unique set-up!
•  National Board of Housing, Building and Planning, Sweden: (Swedish; Boverket)
• Swedish Association of  Municipal Housing Companies, SABO
   
• - En Suède, les loyaers se négocient!
  ...découper de le magazine Droit au Logement,ASLOCA Suisse
  
  
• Swedish case on state aid 2006/2007
  - The Swedish case, by the Sw. Union of Tenants, 2005
  - Linklaters´report, Febr. 2005
  - Standard and Poors´report, Dec. 2006

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Switzerland

• Swiss tenants Union, report 2008, click here
• About evictions in Switzerland, 2006
• Swiss Tenants Union report Dec 2007, click here
• Swiss Tenants Union, report April 2007, click here.
• Increase of Homeownership, to 36 %, 2005
• Swiss Tenants Union, report 2005
• Congrés de l´Association Internationale des Locataires, 2007
• Human Settlements in Switzerland, 2006
  Published by the Swiss Federal Office for Housing, Tel +41 32 654 91 11
  Fax: +41 32 654 91 10, E-mail: info@bwo.admin.ch
  www.bwo.admin.ch/
• Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in Switzerland, 2006
• Statistics of construction and housing in Switzerland

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Wales

• Statistics on Housing, 2012
• Figures on Social Housing and rents, 2012
• About Welsh housing, 2010/2011

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Turkey

• About rental agreements in Turkey:
  - April, 2012
  - December 2009
  - January 2010

• Security of Tenure in Istanbul, 2007

• Housing Development Administration  -TOKİ
  

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