"days without bread are the longest days" - "stealing our future by keeping us out of touch with the knowledge-based society" - "being undocumented, so for you I don’t exist" - "waking up in bad housing conditions which saps the will to do anything" - "working full-time, but … not earning enough to make a decent living" - "every agency wanting the same papers. And more photocopies every time" - "hard to talk about, but when I did start to talk to others I felt no different from them and I wasn’t embarrassed" - "being paid regularly, but my debts still mounting up anyway" - "what really wears homeless people out is time. Always waiting, always being on the go…" - "being old and living alone. I am sick. I am afraid of loneliness … I cry a lot but try to look calm and collected when I go out." - "my children inheriting my poverty" - "constant pressure. It wears you down. Nobody prepared me for living in such harsh conditions"

CECODHAS - Housing Europe (CECODHAS - Housing Europe)

CECODHAS – HOUSING EUROPE is the European Committee for social and cooperatives housing, a network of national and regional social housing federations. Together the 45 members in 19 EU members States manage 25 millions dwellings. CECODHAS members work together for a Europe that provides access to decent and affordable housing for all in communities which are socially, economically and environmentally sustainable and where all are enabled to reach their full potential.

See online : CECODHAS

Planned activities

Beyond the common activities with the EY 2010 NGOs group, CECODHAS has already :

  • published a compilation of case studies about the fight against poverty and social exclusion in the housing sector (October 2009) and we will:
  • organise a conference with EAPN on combating energy poverty, as part of the 2010 European Sustainable Energy Week (March 2010)
  • deliver political messages linked to combating poverty and social exclusion to the European informal meeting of Ministers in charge of Housing (June 2010)
  • support and advertise the initiatives of our members related to the European Year

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