Section: Resident Involvement
Web Watch - International Union of Tenants (IUT)
The International Union of Tenants (IUT) is a Non Governmental Organisation, founded in 1926 in Zurich, with the purpose of safeguarding the interests of tenants. It is a non-party political organisation, working along democratic lines.
News articles recently posted to the IUT website include:
- How to keep your tenant happy, and save yourself trouble. Tips for landlords!
- Newsletter of the European Committee of Social Rights, ECSR.
- Questions about the Tanzania Tenant Association.
- Happy 2011! from the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing.
- European Parliament calls upon the EU for concrete action towards ending homelessness.
- French cities prefer fines to social housing.
- The year that changed social housing in the UK forever.
- Atlanta’s Public-Housing Revolution.
- Reinventing Public Housing in the US.
- Chicago closes infamous public housing complex.
- London's Great Experiment In Social Housing; Cook's Camden.
Also available from the website is a link to the latest edition of the IUT's Global Tenant magazine.
www.iut.nu.
