Ústí nad Labem

Karel Karika (2020)
Pirate Party candidate for Governor of a Czech region from the Romani community says social exclusion has been ignored for 30 years
29.9.2020 8:07 full story
Czech town to see exhibition by pro-Romani and Romani artists referencing the Black Lives Matter movement
15.9.2020 6:41 full story
Czech local zones to cancel housing benefits create more poverty, the biggest one is Ústí nad Labem
29.6.2020 13:09 full story
Czech Supreme Administrative Court upholds homeless Romani family's appeal of eviction, returns case to Regional Court
21.5.2020 7:32 full story
Romani doctor in the Czech Republic: This work is enormously meaningful during the COVID-19 pandemic
4.4.2020 13:20 full story
Czech President Havel protested against the wall separating non-Roma from Roma on Matiční Street 20 years ago
19.10.2019 10:14 full story
Czech city declares its entire territory a ghetto for harsh housing benefit restrictions - which don't deliver
2.10.2019 9:14 full story
Czech town hires Romani lifeguards, swimmers respond positively - especially Romanes speakers
5.7.2019 8:47 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
Karel Karika: Benefit-free zones are absurd, the populists are abusing their power
18.2.2019 12:37 full story
Yet another Czech city announces its entire territory to be a housing benefit-free zone
18.2.2019 11:03 full story
Karel Karika: Czech PM's party avoiding coalition with winning local movement is a "mega-dirty trick"
18.12.2018 8:46 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
Jan Cibrik explains his collaboration with Czech city officials who are so harsh about impoverished Roma
9.7.2018 20:36 The crisis in the Czech town of Ústí nad Labem that broke out in connection with the closing of two residential hotels seems to have been smoothed over for now. Thanks to enormous efforts primarily by the Deputy Mayor of one of the centrally-located municipal departments, Karel Karika, most of the people living in the closing facility in that municipality managed to find new housing, while about 25 people from the other facility have been provided temporary shelter by the city in the gym of a school in the excluded Předlice neighborhood. full story
Czech residential hotels close, 21 people now living in a primary school gym
1.7.2018 8:32 Yesterday the last tenants in the two residential hotels closing in the Czech town of Ústí nad Labem moved out. According to those who attended the Friday coordination group meeting among representatives of the city, social workers and nonprofit organizations, of the 224 people in need of rehousing, 177 have accommodation arranged and housing for 25 more people was in the process of being sought. full storyCzech landlord allegedly threatens to pull the plug tonight on evictees' amplified displacement party
27.6.2018 16:00 The people being evicted from the Klíšská and Modrá residential hotels in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic are bidding farewell to the neighborhood today with musical performances under the slogans "We Won't Go Live on the Street!" and "Black, White, Together We Fight!", holding a community gathering in advance of their having to move out on 30 June. The evictees want to draw attention to their desperate situation and to point out that the authorities have de facto created a real quandary when it comes to making social housing accessible. full storyCzech city says 56 evictees still not rehoused, must move by the end of the week
25.6.2018 15:04 Of the two residential hotels in the Czech city of Ústí nad Labem that are closing their operations on Saturday, 56 people still need to be rehoused. There are 224 people officially registered as living in the facilities.full story

Czech region where evictions are underway keeps rejecting plans to subsidize lunches for impoverished schoolchildren
21.6.2018 11:20 News server iDNES.cz reports that the Ústecký Regional Assembly has refused to support a motion from its Regional Council to allocate regional finances to cover the costs of lunches at school for children from impoverished families. The assembly members were especially bothered by the fact that the financing was to have been distributed through a nonprofit organization. full story
videoCivil society members of Czech Govt Roma Council leave meeting in protest against housing benefit-free zones
19.6.2018 15:03 Romani civil society members of the Czech Govt Council for Romani Minority affairs have left the Council meeting today to protest the current Government's social policy. They are demanding the abolition of housing benefit-free zones and the withdrawal of a bill to amend the Act on Aid to Those in Material Distress even further in a restrictive direction. full story