🔥The next meeting of the European Action Coalition for the right to housing and to the city (EAC) will take place in Cluj, Romania from Thursday the 27th of April to Monday the 1st of May 2023. Save the date!🔥

➡️Following our super inspiring meeting in Athens in November last year and the massive Housing Action Days 2023, EAC’s member groups will be meeting in Cluj to discuss strategies, exchange skills, reflect on past actions and make plans for the future. We wish many collectives and individuals from local movements will join us there. We’d like to open a space of exchange and organise beyond our Coalition. The Romanian housing movement has always been important and influential to our network both through active participation in our research work and the organisation of our structure. Romania’s political and social contexts have greatly contributed to our understanding of the European housing crisis and the ways we wish to end it. The East European perspective is essential to build transnational movements, also due to its position in the recent geopolitical crisis.

➡️This is why we invite local and regional movements, and not only those struggling for the rights to housing and to the city, but all who are involved in related intersectional struggles, be it anti-racist, feminist, queer, labour, environmental etc. Let us unite our struggles beyond borders!

📢If you are interested in joining our meeting please write an email to info@housingnotprofit.org. To see a summary of the Athens meeting please visit: https://housingnotprofit.org/transnational-meeting-of…/

➡See here the public programme of the meeting➡:

💥Friday 28 April 2023💥
➡️Tranzit House
Public event (1) 18.00 - 20.00: Discussion - Lost in urban regeneration: how do we organize against gentrification in European cities? (with simultaneous translation):
The phenomena of capitalist restructuring of our cities and the commodification of housing is affecting us all over Europe. While the local conditions are very different our struggles are connecting us beyond borders. In this event, comrades from multiple cities will explain how gentrification or so-called urban regeneration affects housing affordability in their cities, what is lost as a result of these processes and who benefits from them, how the built environment is altered alongside the social structure of the inhabitants, how public authorities collaborate with real estate capital in these processes, and how activist groups respond to these phenomena. They will therefore also present their approaches of organizing and fighting back, reflecting the social and political conditions in their geographies. We will learn how our resistance has an impact on actual politics and how it empowers us in our movement from the actual dystopia to another world.
Speakers:Căși sociale ACUM/Social Housing Now (Cluj), Bond Precaire Woonvormen (Netherlands), Stop Evictions Viena, DAL (France), Habita (Lisbon), Habitacao Hoje (Porto), Ort till Ort (Sweden), United Initiative against Auctions (Athens)

• moderator: Oana Pop // with Youtube, facebook live

➡️ACASA
Party at Acasa Razboieni

💥Saturday 29 April 2023💥

➡️Tranzit House
14:00 - 17:00 Open events:
ACTION DISCUSSIONS

1. Housing Action Days (HAD)
   The HAD was initiated by the EAC four years ago. In 2023, more than 120 actions took place in 60 different cities in that frame. We will make a feedback of 2023 edition, and plan an even bigger HAD 2024.
2. Alternatives > Cooperative housing / HALEM?/ …
   Practical approaches of cooperative housing offer direct solutions or at least the prospect to escape the pressure of the housing market. In this open exchange we get together and discuss the different existing approaches and how we can strengthen them.
3. Open discussion

➡️Cofee break

➡️Tranzit House
Public event (2) 18.00 - 20.00: Book launch - How do we fight against evictions? (English version of the Handbook of Resistance Tactics Against Evictions) (with simultaneous translation):
In May and June 2022 Căși sociale ACUM from Cluj organized a series of workshops on the struggle against evictions. They invited different collectives from Romania and all over Europe and out of those 12 events a brochure was created. Tonight this handbook will be launched and comrades who contributed to it, will share in dense roundups their insights. Join this world premiere.
Speakers from the authors/cities involved in the production of the book: Blocul Pentru Locuire România (Căși sociale ACUM, FCDL, Dreptul la Oraș, ERomnja, RomaJust), Anti eviction Berlin, Sindicat de Llogaretes Barcelona, Habita/Lisbon, The Roof/ Belgrade, A Város Mindenkié/Budapest - moderator: Nóra Ugron

💥Sunday 30 April 2023 💥
➡️Tranzit House
10:30 - 13:00 Morning : workshops

1. tenants union workshop (open)
   The EAC working group of tenants’ unions will meet to discuss the latest experiences in local organizing and to define their future exchanges and colaborations. Meet organizers from all over Europe and get to know their collectives.
2. end homelessness workshop (open)
   In the last EAC meeting, a new working group to ‘end homelessness’ was created. In this workshop, we will discuss future strategies having in mind the EU’s proclamation to end homelessness 2030 and the European Parliament elections next year.

➡️Tranzit House
14:00 - 17:00 workshops open to the public

3. Feminist manifesto
   As EAC, we tried to illustrate the importance of feminist issues and struggles in the housing and city-rights movements in our text written in the occasion of the 8th of March this year. In this workshop we will discuss strategies how to deepen the visibility of that aspects in our daily struggles.
4. Housing and Climate justice
   Comrades from the Climate Justice movement have invited members to many discussions on how to converge our movements. The potentials, as well as the differences, are obvious. In this workshop we will speak of local experiences and try to develop ideas for concrete future steps.
5. Public and social housing
   In the recent past, EAC has had several initiatives regarding public and social housing as a non-profit alternative to the market-dominated housing regime subordinated to the interests of capital accumulation. In March 2019, in Cluj, several coalition groups launched the European Manifesto for Public Housing, presented in a public meeting. In 2021, EAC produced and promoted a series of videos on the history, present and future of social housing in Europe. It is time to rethink this claim.

➡️Tranzit House
Public event (3) 18.00 - 20.00: Film screening and discussion - Excerpts from the film Dislocations - Eviction routes to Cantonului street (1996-2016):“Dislocations” illustrates how post-socialist politics resulted in the dispossession from their housing rights of the impoverished people from Cluj-Napoca, including ethnic Roma. Before 1990, they belonged to working class and in the context of the formation of capitalism in Romania were affected by a process of precarization both in the world of labor and housing. Ionica, Leontina, Babi, Sandu, Ligia, Katalin and Gelu help us mapping how their successive dislocations happened in time and space between 1996-2016 in the city of Cluj, ending into their settlement on Cantonului street without number. Embodied in their personal histories, the national politics of housing marked by privatization, commodification, financialization and the dramatic reduction of the social housing stock was re-enforced by the local policies of allocating public housing. As a result of the latter the municipality selected the categories of people envisioned to deserve living in the city while pushing impoverished ethnic Roma into housing conditions characterized by insecurity and severe material deprivation. The area where they are tolerated till the land will not gain real estate value is part of Pata Rat, a territory nearby the city’s landfill that nowadays hosts approximately 1500 persons subjected to ghettoization. Followed by a discussion about the Antiracist housing justice struggle (with simultaneous translation) -Speakers: Maria Stoica, Linda Greta, Enikő Vincze (Căși sociale ACUM!), Nicoleta Vișan (FCDL), Eugen Ghiță (RomaJust) - moderator: George Zamfir

💥Monday 1st May 2023💥
➡️Tranzit House
10:00 - 13:00 Open assembly (open to public)
In this final assemly we will gather short feedbacks from the workshops and working group sessions on Saturday and Sunday and collectively take decisions on what we will do the next 6 months. We will transfer the energy of our meeting to the online world.

➡️Tranzit House
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
Piata Unirii/Central Park
Public event (4) 14.00-18.00: Crossborder solidarity for housing and labour without exploaition: celebrating the internationalism of 1st of May
❗We believe in the power of transnational solidarity! We affirm that labour and housing rights must be won together to ensure adequate living for all. Because precarious and low-paid labor limits our access to adequate housing. Because lack of adequate housing puts our workforce at risk. The exploitation of working class labour must end along with the extraction of profit from their need for housing. International Labour Day reminds us, that our local struggles must unite in an international struggle for a society free from exploitation and dispossession.❗
Detailed program :
14.00-15.30:Assembly and speeches in Piata Unirii
Speeches of EAC members + launching of a local newspaper for housing justice : Cărămida #19
16.30-18.00: Community picnic in the Central Park (come with your foodbasket)