Socially excluded localities

Commentary: CNN Prima begins its Czech-language broadcasting with stereotypes about Romani people

5.5.2020 8:16  full story

Emil Voráč: Czech Govt COVID-19 measures haven't stopped our work, but the poorest are being forgotten

5.5.2020 7:04  full story

Slovakia will test Romani settlement residents for COVID-19 and isolate infected people in state-run facilities

1.4.2020 18:06  full story

Nikola Taragoš on NGO response to COVID-19 in the Czech Republic: We're trying to prevent things from getting worse

1.4.2020 16:50  full story

Slovak Govt Plenipotentiary for Romani Communities tells PM to either fire him or let him do his job

29.3.2020 13:03  full story

MEP Peter Pollák joins Slovak Permanent Crisis Team to address COVID-19 in Romani localities

27.3.2020 8:36  full story

Slovak NGOs demand crisis plan from Govt to prevent COVID-19 pandemic in Romani communities, ombudswoman supports them

26.3.2020 16:52  full story

Romani people from different Czech towns have joined the face mask sewing effort

19.3.2020 18:23  full story

Czech Caritas: Debts cause school dropout, welfare reforms will not improve attendance

10.3.2020 8:43  full story

Analysis: Slovak elections a Pyrrhic victory despite number of Roma elected

4.3.2020 10:22  full story

Slovakia: Romani girl from settlement now champion runner in her region

17.7.2019 7:30  full story

Czech town buying real estate in troubled neighborhoods for social housing development

10.6.2019 9:16  full story

Czech Republic's governing party tries to spin real estate market fluctuation as proof of its "success" at tackling ghettoes

10.6.2019 8:18  full story

Regional Roma association opposes housing benefit-free zones in yet another Czech city

4.3.2019 16:58  full story

Romani people adopted as children from Slovakia to Sweden 20 years ago revisit their native settlement

29.11.2018 10:01  full story

Czech Republic: 88 cities in 12 regions plan to ban housing benefits in specific zones

7.11.2018 11:31 The Institute for Social Inclusion (IPSI) reports that a total of 88 cities and municipalities in 12 regions are planning to announce or have already announced zones with increased incidences of undesirable phenomena where new applicants for housing benefits will not be allowed to receive them for residence at those addresses. The only regions where local authorities have not taken this step are the Pardubice and South Moravian Regions.
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Czech Govt Agency for Social Inclusion: 80 % of families who left residential hotels for standard rentals still renting one year later

18.10.2018 22:01 More than four-fifths of households living in residential hotels who were able to apply for extraordinary benefits to cover the costs of deposits and equipment when moving into standard rental apartment units are still in that housing in good standing one year later. Almost one-fifth of such households, moreover, made the move without requesting housing benefits from the state at all.  full story

Czech evictees must leave school gym this weekend for housing in socially excluded localities

14.7.2018 9:25 Of the people who had to move away from one of two residential hotels that closed as of 30 June in the Czech city of Ústí nad Labem without having anywhere else to go, three families with children and three single men remain housed in the gym of a primary school in the socially excluded Předlice neighborhood. As of yesterday, two of those families have rental housing arranged in a building near Na Nivách Street, while the third family says they believe they will manage to find housing in the Nové Březno neighborhood.  full story

Czech Green Party says current housing crisis involving Romani evictees makes previous ones seem humane by comparison

18.6.2018 15:01 The leadership of the Green Party in the Ústecký Region of the Czech Republic is appealing to the leadership of the City of Ústí nad Labem to arrange crisis housing for the inhabitants of two residential hotels that are closing as of 30 June because as many as 230 people, 80 of them children, now living in the buildings in the city center and the Střekov quarter could end up living on the streets. "City Hall, through its decision to officially designate zones in the city where new arrivals will no longer be eligible for housing beneifts, has triggered a wave of reactions," their press release reports.  full story

Social worker associations ask Czech city not to "abuse" social work

18.6.2018 13:58 Three associations of professional social workers - the Association of Educators in Social Work, the Social Workers' Society, and the Professional Chamber of Social Workers - have sent open letters about the housing crisis developing in the Czech city of Ústí nad Labem, and news server Romea.cz is publishing both letters in full translation below. One of the letters is addressed to fellow social workers there and calls on them to perform their jobs in accordance with "social work values" when fulfilling the city's commissions.  full story