The real life of law: Polish lessons on housing activism in the postcommunist...
Abstract In this paper, I analyze the content and practice of law enforcement in the domain of tenants’ protection in Warsaw to draw lessons from Polish examples on the strategy for housing activism in...
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Housing poverty and (missing) housing policies in Hungary (part 1)
‘Our fridge is Swedish, the coffee machine is German. Why not have an American kitchen_ 10 different home mortgage options’ Housing has recently become a hot topic in Hungarian public discourse. This...
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Struggles in and over Public Space: Hungarian Heritage as a Homeless Free Zone
Source: CritCom, Council of European Studies, Columbia University In November 2013, members of the organization The City Is for All (A Város Mindenkié, henceforth AVM) were forcibly removed from the...
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Housing poverty and (missing) housing policies in Hungary: A radical...
Note from the LeftEast editors: the first part of Mariann Dosa’s text on the housing policies in Hungary can be read here. Any housing policies that prioritize equity need to be based on broadly...
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Debt, Rents and Homelessness: Housing Policies in Postsocialist Romania
On September 16, 2014, about 30 people protested in front of the Bucharest City Hall. They demanded to be offered a housing after they had been forcefully evicted a day before from their houses on 50...
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Greece inspires us, but it cannot save us
It continues to be extremely important for people in the rest of Europe to support Greece. Not only for the sake of the Greeks, but for the sense of the future of democracy in Europe, and for the...
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