Ústí nad Labem

Czech town sees 6 000 people attend Romfest in runup to elections, Romani figures explained the importance of voting and warned against ultranationalists

28.9.2021 9:40  full story

Czech mobile team has vaccinated about 100 people against COVID-19 at the Mojžíř housing estate and will visit other excluded localities

4.8.2021 12:46  full story

Czech Police President backs officers who intervened against Romani man who later died, expresses regret at the loss of life - the first such statement

24.6.2021 6:55  full story

Karel Karika: COVID-19 making life drastically worse in the socially excluded localities of the Czech Republic

29.1.2021 8:33  full story

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 story

Czech 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 story