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Community Land Trusts

Auteur : Anne-Iris Romens - Publié le : 2013-05-15 13:37 -

Community Land Trusts (CLT) combine 'access to housing' with the principle of 'democratic management' in everyday living.

Stimulating self-construction

Auteur : Anne-Iris Romens - Publié le : 2013-05-15 13:13 -

Several initiatives aim at sharing knowledge and facilitating self-construction, be it in housing, farming facilities, shelters, etc.

Self-constructed communities

Auteur : Anne-Iris Romens - Publié le : 2013-05-15 13:09 -

Self-construction can be part of a community project where the members of a community help one in each other to build their own houses

The soft requisition bill

Auteur : Louise Hain - Publié le : 2013-05-15 12:54 -

Facilitates negotiation talks with the owners of abandoned buildings and other unused premises.

Bill in Andalucía

Auteur : Anne-Iris Romens - Publié le : 2013-05-15 12:47 -

Based on Ex-propriation and fines in order to avoid buildings lying empty while families and individuals face homelessness on the streets of Andalucía, Spain.

Occupying abandoned buildings

Auteur : Anne-Iris Romens - Publié le : 2013-05-15 12:18 -

The reusing of abandoned housing may be provided by through law or policy. In other cases, the occupation of buildings is done without the consent of the legal owner of the premises, despite it lying vacant and unused, and is therefore considered illegal.

Mapping abandoned buildings

Auteur : Anne-Iris Romens - Publié le : 2013-05-15 09:55 -

As hundreds of buildings contine to lie abandoned and unused all across Europe, creative initiatives have appeared in several European countries that aim at mapping abandoned buildings in the hope that they will be later used in some shape or form.

Sharing a building

Auteur : Anne-Iris Romens - Publié le : 2013-05-15 08:38 -

Shared housing experiences, such as neighbours living in the same building, may result in better organisation and sharing of resources, thus facilitating greater access to all involved. Take for example, the sharing of food through the establishment of a group-purchased building, or organising shared care of loved ones.

Recovery of Meals

Auteur : Anne-Iris Romens - Publié le : 2013-05-15 08:32 -

Local initiatives of this kind involve the recovering of edible food before it ends up in the rubbish bin.

Gleaning and dumpster diving

Auteur : Anne-Iris Romens - Publié le : 2013-05-15 08:13 -

Gleaning is an ancient practice which consists in allowing third parties to collect the produce remaining in the fields after harvest (potatoes, carrots, etc.). Another form, grapping, consists in recovering fruit from the trees (grapes, apples, etc.). The practice of retrieving food from rubbish bins that has been thrown away, but which is perfectly edible, is also common.

Cultivation and production on all terrain

Auteur : Anne-Iris Romens/ Lorna Muddiman - Publié le : 2013-05-15 08:06 -
Consumption

Particularly in the context of the present economic climate, initiatives are emerging in communities across Europe that involve the planting of any suitable piece of land and sharing the produce grown. The benefits of these kinds of movements are multi-fold.

Community gardens

Auteur : Anne-Iris Romens - Publié le : 2013-05-14 13:27 -

Community gardens are those that are shared, cultivated and managed by a community of residents.

GAS (Gruppi di Aquisto Solidale)

Auteur : Anne-Iris Romens - Publié le : 2013-05-14 13:22 -

Most notably developed in Italy, GAS ("solidarity purchase groups") bring together consumers who wish to buy products as a collective from one or more producers.

La domiciliation associative

Auteur : Anne-Iris Romens - Publié le : 2013-05-14 12:34 -

In France, the provision of a registered address enables an asylum seeker, who is homeless, to declare his or her address at any NGO that has been specially approved by the French administration.

Avvocato di Strada

Auteur : Anne-Iris Romens - Publié le : 2013-05-14 11:45 -

Avvocato di strada (Street lawyer) is an association of lawyers established with the objective to protect homeless people, increasingly deprived of their fundamental rights and trapped in a situation from which they are unlikely to leave.