Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Judith Scherr People march through West Oakland to the foreclosed home now owned by Fannie Mae that will be occupied as a community centre. Credit:Judith Scherr/IPS Buy this picture OAKLAND, California, Dec 7, 2011 (IPS) – Five months ago, Gayla Newsome was at work when she [...]
ARGENTINA: Needs Outstrip Efforts to Build Affordable Housing
August 15, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Aug 12, 2011 (IPS) – The Argentine economy has grown steadily since 2003, and hundreds of thousands of social housing units have been built. Nevertheless, the protests and conflicts that periodically break out make it clear that the solutions have failed to keep [...]
VENEZUELA: Ambitious Promises of Affordable Housing
June 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Humberto Márquez CARACAS, Jun 23, 2011 (IPS) – "I want my own roof over my head, my own home. I don’t want to live in a curtained-off cubicle surrounded by masses of people," says Elena Díaz, who does ironing for a living and lives in a temporary [...]
Foreclosure Mess Reveals Longstanding Problems
November 1, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Matthew Cardinale ATLANTA, Georgia, Oct 31, 2010 (IPS) – The discovery of apparent massive fraud in mortgage and foreclosure documents has called into question millions of pending foreclosures in the U.S. Several banks have enacted partial or complete moratoriums until the issues can be resolved. Yet activists [...]
BRAZIL: Eviction from Rio’s Slums Echoes Dark Past
May 11, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Fabiana Frayssinet* – Tierramérica RIO DE JANEIRO, May 11 (IPS) – The longstanding debate between eviction or upgrading of Rio’s ”favelas” or slums has gathered new force as this one-time capital of Brazil still shows the hillside scars left by rain-induced landslides in early April. Controversy surrounds the [...]
RIGHTS: U.S. Criticised over Soaring Housing Costs
March 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Armin Rosen UNITED NATIONS, Mar 5 (IPS) – On Friday, the richest and most powerful country on earth was the subject of a damning report submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. The United States rarely finds itself brought before HRC, and issues of U.S. domestic policy [...]
MIDEAST: The ‘Unknown’ Fight the Illegal
November 8, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM, Nov 8 (IPS) – "Make sure your father gets this," the municipal inspector tells a ten-year-old boy at the gate of the concrete house in an alleyway in the Al-Bustan quarter of Silwan, a Palestinian neighbourhood right under the shadow [...]
