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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"housing rights"”.
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From housing rights to housing provision : two case studies in the trajectory of the housing rights movement & the development of community housing in Australia, 1975-1996
… small government programs, the Victorian Rental Housing Co-operative Program and the Local Government and Community Housing Program, through which community housing principles were introduced into Australian public housing policy. The context for this research is the failure by the housing rights …
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'Não são tijolos; são histórias': The Favela Housing Rights Movement of Rio de Janeiro
… Olympics, Rio is experiencing its own favela housing rights movement, land rights, and government investment in upgrading projects that deserves academic attention. Implied in the term is a concomitant fight for land rights—both of which are needed to avoid eviction. Secondly, I explain how …
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Housing Rights Implications of Hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Toronto and Vancouver: Towards a Legal Framework that Effectively Protects the Right to Adequate Housing in Canada
… the 2026 FWC could impact the right to adequate housing in the host provinces/cities of Ontario/Toronto and British Columbia/Vancouver vis-à-vis the already precarious housing situation in these provinces/cities and the anticipated high demand that would be placed on the housing market by soccer …
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A Decent Place to Stay: Housing Crises, Failed Laws, and Property Conflicts in Washington, D.C
… up to 97 percent of the profits on speculative housing sales. In 1984 the District of Columbia voters approved an initiative to guarantee every resident who needed it access to overnight shelter for every night of the year. Both of these responses to the city's housing crisis marked the …
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Trabalho voluntário: relação entre motivação e cidadania em uma ONG ligada à educação na cidade de João Pessoa - PB
… importance of the government in the exercise of housing rights, labor and decrease the income gap between poor and rich. The altruistic construct obtained highest average and was that showed the most correlations whereas the learning had second highest average and showed only one correlation.
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Higher Command: An Examination of African American Leadership in the Vietnam Era
… access to voting, education, employment, and housing rights at home. Military service appealed to many African Americans who hoped it would lead to social and economic advancement for themselves and their race. Despite African American military participation throughout the nation’s history, …
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Unlawful sale of state-subsidised houses by the Cape Town community housing company
… clarifies the protections available to housing subsidy beneficiaries who purchase houses through credit agreements. I look at the legislative framework that protects the right to access to housing in terms of section 26 of the Constitution. I consider a Constitutional Court case Amardien …
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To sell or not to sell? An analysis of the Tafelberg sale in the light of the right to adequate housing in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
… two civil society organisations working around housing rights and social justice, criticised the sales decision. They called for the property to be used for the development of affordable housing in order to help addressing the lack of affordable housing in central Cape Town. Eventually, they …
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“NÃO ÀS REMOÇÕES: PELO DIREITO À MORADIA”: EXAMINING THE FANTASMA(S) DE REMOÇÃO/GHOSTS OF EVICTION AND THE INSURGENCE OF NETWORKED FAVELA HOUSING ACTIVISM IN RIO DE JANEIRO
… dynamics through which grassroots housing resistance have been mobilized in response to the threat of dispossession. Through participant observation, informal conversations, and interviews, I utilize an ethnographic approach to advance three inter-related arguments. First, I argue …
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The implementation of rights in housing law
… examines a range of issues concerning legal rights implementation in the field of Scottish housing law. This examination comprises three principle themes: firstly, an evaluation of the broad range of factors that can affect the implementation of legal rights. These factors are gleaned from an …
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From Conflict to Collaboration: Nongovernmental Organizations and their Negotiations for Local Control of Slum and Squatter Housing in Mumbai, India
… This is particularly true in the arena of housing provision for residents of slums and squatter settlements. The recent pursuit of collaboration between NGOs and government housing agencies in large urban agglomerations such as Mumbai, India marks a significant shift from the adversarial …
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Marginación socio-espacial: Programas de rehabilitación de patologías estructurales en el polígono de viviendas del barrio Besòs de Barcelona
… by the use of aluminous cement; and second, housing class allow to concentrate and consolidate socio-economic levels generated only-one type of resident (low income). Comparatively examine the institutional proposals of urban development (rehabilitation) for the Besòs, it is to expose …