EIJC19 & Dataharvest

Housing law and regulations are spread across the local, national and European levels, and differ from city to city and from country to country. And access to decent and affordable housing is recognised as a human right in the Universal Declaration, in other international conventions and in many national constitutions – yet rulings about housing at European courts are often based on consumer law. In this session, we will hear from Sergio Nasarre, director of the UNESCO Housing Chair at the University Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, about housing law, institutions and regulations at the European level, and also comparatively between jurisdictions. We will talk about the housing market is regulated and which other institutions concern housing in Europe. And we will discuss examples of potential housing stories that journalists may have missed – maybe because of all that normative and bureaucratic complexity. Interested in reporting about housing? Then this session is a must for you!