Informal Housing
You will find here varied resources – researches, good practice models, information on legislation and funding dedicated to informal housing, links to relevant institutions, informal housing initiatives and grassroots stories – dedicated both for public authorities, NGOs and professionals working in marginalized communities or in urban planning, housing and community facilitation fields, as well as for communities who live in this kind on settlements.
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I don’t have documents, I don’t exist
Innovative model of participatory intervention in informal settlements.
The first project to regulate informal settlements in Romania that will support the community living on the outskirts of the Câlnic neighborhood, in Reșița, to enter into legality and obtain documents for the lands where they built their houses.
What is it like to live in informal settlements in Romania?
Some answers in this first movie made as part of the project “No Man’s Land – informal housing in Roma communities – recognition, responsibility and common solutions”.
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The first project to regulate housing without legal forms will take place in the area of Str. Bistra, Câlnic neighborhood, Reșița.
Starting mid-October 2020, we’ve partnered Geospatial to develop a Map of Informal Settlements in Romania. This initiative if based on our finding that awareness on the scale of informal housing in Romania is very limited. As a consequence of this lack of ackwnowledgement, there is a lack of support programs and a limited practice of […]
The law by which the informal settlements will be identified and can be legalized in Romania was promulgated on July 24, 2019 and became the Law no. 151/2019 for the completion of Law no. 350/2001 on spatial planning and urban planning. The project “No man’s land” was a real leap in the awareness and inclusive […]
The report Roma, Romania and the geography, broadcast on October 2018, on Antena 1, during the show În premieră, it captures many of the painful aspects of the phenomenon of informal settlements and strengthens our conviction that urgent solutions are needed. The documentary focuses on the Roma settlements, although according to the existing studies, the […]