CALL FOR ACTION FROM THE URBAN SPACE AT ESF ATHENS MAY 2006

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CALL FOR ACTION FROM THE URBAN SPACE AT ESF ATHENS MAY 2006
The movements of the European Network struggling for housing rights -
Habitat International Coalition, International Alliance of Inhabitants, No
Vox and the Greek Initiative for the Right to the City - are calling for
all social organisations to adopt housing as a key social issue and to
join us in action around 2nd October 2006 (World Habitat Day).
We demand that governments:
1. Implement the right to decent, sustainable housing for all, without
discrimination, and that this right has legal enforcement
2. Defend and develop:-
a) public and not for profit housing sectors, which are democratically
controlled;
b) public space and public urban planning;
c) public services such as water, public transport and energy.
3. Regulate the real estate market and rental housing to put a stop to
speculation, privatisation and high rents.
4. Halt forced evictions and demolitions and the destruction of popular
neighbourhoods and shanty towns.
 

weblinks:
http://athens.fse-esf.org/

this call for action emanated from the following workshops held in Athens:
- "Development of European mobilisation against the violations of housing
rights"
- "Participatory governance in European cities: struggling against or
abiding for neoliberalism?"
- "The crisis of European urban periphery"
- "Globalisation, real-estate speculation and the city: international
strategies and action"
- "Real-Estate Speculation, Globalisation and the City" 05-01-2006
- "The role of the city in an alternative Europe: towards housing and
habitat rights."
taken from:
http://athens.fse-esf.org/search?SearchableText=Urban_policies_cities&Language=all