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The loss of a home can lead to major violations of a person’s dignity and human rights. Yet, evictions take place everyday in all countries across Europe. This book provides a comparative assessment of human rights, administrative, procedural and public policy norms, in the context of eviction, across a number of European jurisdictions. Through this […]
The UNESCO Chair of Housing has acknowledged its partners having accompanied it during this time and has symbolized it with a piece designed by the artist Antonio Gómez, which includes the logo of the Chair, together with that of the Rovira University and Virgili and the one of UNESCO in a context of iron, cement […]
The Seminars of the subject “New Perspectives of Contract Law” took place on 17 December 2018 in the framework of the Master’s Degree in Business and Contract Law offered by the University Rovira i Virgili, in which some researchers from the Chair are involved. The topic addressed by the invited speaker, Mr. Pedro Soler Dorda, […]
Dr. Elga Molina Roig participated in the round table on the reform of the Law of urban leases delivered in the Conference about housing organized on November 13 by the Barcelona Law Bar (Il.lustre Col.legi d’Advocats de Barcelona) and the Council of Barcelona (Ajuntament de Barcelona).
On December 14, Prof. Nasarre gave the lecture “Beyond property: successful housing contracts and intermediate tenures in a comparative perspective” at the Faculty of Law of the University of Pisa, sharing interventions with Prof. Elena Bargelli and Prof. Teresio Poggio. The seminar, conducted by Prof. Padovani, was held to discuss the progress of the Italian […]
This year marks 5 years since the establishment of the UNESCO Housing Chair, and a celebration of this achievement took place on 12 December with all partners and researchers of the Chair. The event was attended by the Rector of the University Rovira i Virgili, Dr. Maria José Figueres, and we welcomed Fundación Mutua de […]
Lurdes Quintero Gallego, alumni of the URV’s Foundation and UNESCO Housing Chair postgraduate program in mediation, has been awarded the II CEPAC Award for final year and postgraduate projects about human towers (castells), with her project “Mediation castellera”. http://www.cepac.cat https://www.tarragona.cat/cultura/noticies/noticies-2018/lurdes-quintero-guanya-el-ii-cepac-amb-un-treball-sobre-mediacio-castellera
Gentrification is a phenomenon expressing in replacement or expulsion of the poor class from the urban center. It is a consequence of speculative strategies in the real estate sector and growing demands of classes with higher purchasing power. The development of gentrification can be explained by lack of public policies to control housing prices and insufficient […]
Dr. Héctor Simón attended the “Designing appropriate and affordable settlements” workshop, which was organized by the Center of Development Studies and Department of Land Economics of the University of Cambridge on 3 and 4 December. Geoffrey Payne, an expert in urban development that has advised international organizations such as the World Bank or UN-Habitat, also […]
Dr. Rosa Maria Garcia Teruel, postdoctoral researcher at the UNESCO Housing Chair, participated and presented a paper at the international conference Blockchain, Public Trust, Law and Governance, which was held at Groningen (The Netherlands) on 29 and 30 November. The presented paper is entitled “The blockchain technology in European real estate conveyancing”, and covers the […]
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