Zero Evictions Campaign: International Solidarity to Achieve Dignity and Security in Housing - 中欧社会论坛 - China Europa Forum

Zero Evictions Campaign: International Solidarity to Achieve Dignity and Security in Housing

Date: janvier 2007

Published by International Alliance of Inhabitants

URL: www.habitants.org

At this very moment, a billion people all over the world are either threatened with homelessness or living in bad housing conditions, due to large-scale investments of financial and real estate capital, social, economic and racial discrimination, wars and natural disasters. Instead of diminishing by 100 million by 2015 as laid down by Objective No. 7 of Millennium Development Goals, this figure is destined to rise by another 700 million by 2020. The main cause is the subjection of the urban question to the neo-liberal dictates of the IMF and the World Bank which impose privatizations in the public service sector and cuts in social policies.

To tackle this dramatic situation, the International Alliance of Inhabitants launched the Zero Evictions Campaign at the 4th World Social Forum (Mumbai, January 2004), to mobilize international solidarity, starting from the inhabitants directly concerned, in order to restore their hope of achieving dignity and security in housing.

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