Keep Our Homes Detroit

25,000 homes in Detroit are up for auction and at least 8,000 of them are occupied.

Detroit residents are undergoing the largest mass tax foreclosure crisis in US history. In the next 10 days –until October 22—up to 8,000 occupied Detroit homes Detroit will sell for an estimated average bid of $2,400 at the Wayne County Treasurer’s Auction of Tax-Foreclosed Properties.

Detroit People’s Platform and Storehouse of Hope Community Land Trust are teaming up to purchase occupied homes in the auction and secure them permanently in a Community Land Trust (CLT) so families can stay in their homes and we can ensure that these properties remain permanently the off marketplace and out of the hands of speculators. Families participating in the program have been connected through the United Community Housing Coalition. UCHC provides free housing resources for low and no-income Detroiters. Διαβάστε τη συνέχεια του άρθρου »

25η συνάντηση του διεθνούς δικτύου INURA

Ανοιχτές εκδηλώσεις το πλαίσιο της συνάντησης του διεθνούς δικτύου INURA (International Network for Urban Research and Action) που φιλοξενείται στην Αθήνα από 31 Αυγούστου έως 2 Σεπτεμβρίου:

Δευτέρα 31 Αυγούστου, 18:30 – 20 :30 
συζήτηση στο Δημαρχείο Κερατσινίου-Δραπετσώνας με θέμα
«Challenges and conflicts in western Piraeus«

Τρίτη, 1 Σεπτεμβρίου, 18:30- 20:30
εκδήλωση στο αυτοδιαχειριζόμενο Θέατρο ΕΜΠΡΟΣ με θέμα:
«Commons and solidarity economies: transformative potentials»

Τετάρτη, 2 Σεπτεμβρίου, 16:00 – 21:00
διεθνή πάνελ στο Σύλλογο Ελλήνων Αρχαιολόγων με θέμα:
«INURA’s collaborative project on real-existing New Metropolitan Mainstream»
«Challenging austerity urbanism»
θα ακολουθήσει πάρτυ!

Περισσότερες πληροφορίες για το πρόγραμμα του συνεδρίου εδώ

Transformative urban politics. How can we?

25th INURA conference, Athens, August 30th – September 6th 2015

The 25th INURA conference returns to Athens 7 seven years after it tried to reflect on “Non/De/Re-regulation” and while the city has been at the whirlwind of glocal crises.

Since 2007 the words crisis, debt, austerity, economic depression became commonplace around the world. From 2009 Athens became the prominent association with these notions; notions that have also strong spatial manifestations and implications for the city and those living in it. As a new “guinea pig” Athens became a territory for implementing harsh neoliberal measures under the pretext of the “exceptionality” of the crisis. Since this exception was anything but temporary, these past years reflect a “normalization of exception” in everyday life, in the introduction of urban politics and policies and in the (re)production of urban spaces. Διαβάστε τη συνέχεια του άρθρου »

NO TO THE TROIKA PLAN AGAINST GREECE!  NO TO THE EVICTION REGIME OVER EUROPE!

STATEMENT of European housing movements on the clash of the European austerity regime with the Greek people

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Accusation against TAIPED at the anti-MIPIM popular tribunal, 12/3/2014, Cannes

The sell-off of public land and property of Greece as part of the adjustment programme for the repayment of the public debt

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Public goods and public land are not for sale

Stop trading our collective heritage

The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (TAIPED) was established on 1^st July 2011 (Law 3986/2011), under the mid-term fiscal strategy that was imposed by the Troika and adopted by the Greek government. It constitutes the agency responsible for implementing the Greek privatization program with the sole purpose of using its revenues for re-paying the country’s public debt. TAIPED is a “limited liability company”, whose sole shareholder is the Hellenic Republic with a share capital of €30 million. The Fund is not a public entity, and is governed by private law. Full ownership, possession and occupation of all ‘state owned assets’ (land, infrastructure and public companies) that are to be privatized are transferred to TAIPED with the provision that these assets cannot be transferred back to the Greek state. Διαβάστε τη συνέχεια του άρθρου »

Open assembly for the right to housing and the right to the city

a first step towards the coordination of collective action for housing rights

On the European day of action for housing rights (October 19th), more than 120 people gathered at Eleftherias square in Athens, in order to participate at the first open assembly on the right to housing and the right to the city. Participants represented a range of groups and organisations and voiced their  concerns about the housing situation and the forthcoming measures and reflected on future actions. Διαβάστε τη συνέχεια του άρθρου »