Shattered dreams
Subtitle: impact of Spain's housing crisis on vulnerable groups
By: [Judith Sunderland]
Contributors: Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 82
ISBN-13: 9781623131388
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Debt; Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009) fast (OCoLC)fst01755654; Foreclosure; Mortgage loans; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Consumer credit; Economic conditions; Housing policy; Economic history
Other titles: Impact of Spain's housing crisis on vulnerable groups; Spain :
Description: "This 81-page report documents the hardships faced by families who lose their homes after defaulting on mortgage payments amid Spain's economic recession and massive unemployment. The report is based on in-depth interviews with 44 women and men who have experienced or were facing eviction, civil society organizations, and government officials. Immigrants, women who head households or are victims of economic abuse from a former partner, and children are among the affected groups, Human Rights Watch found."--Publisher's website as viewed June 17, 2014.
Notes: "May 2014"--Table of contents page.

"This report was researched and written by Judith Sunderland, senior researcher in the Europe and Central Asia Division of Human Rights Watch"--Page 81.

"This 81-page report documents the hardships faced by families who lose their homes after defaulting on mortgage payments amid Spain's economic recession and massive unemployment. The report is based on in-depth interviews with 44 women and men who have experienced or were facing eviction, civil society organizations, and government officials. Immigrants, women who head households or are victims of economic abuse from a former partner, and children are among the affected groups, Human Rights Watch found"--Publisher's website as viewed June 17, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Glossary; title: Summary; title: Recommendations. To the government of Spain ; To the European Commission of the European Union ; To the Council of Europe ; To the United Nations; title: Methodology; title: I. Background : a crisis foretold. Lack of affordable housing ; Insufficient investment in social housing ; The role of civil society ; Mediation services ; The role of the European Union; title: II. Particularly vulnerable groups. Immigrants ; Single parent heads of household ; Women with abusive or hostile ex-partners ; Insecure housing ; Children; title: III. State and bank responses. Limited protection against eviction ; Challenging foreclosures in court ; Affordable housing ; Accountability; title: IV. Mortgage debt and debt relief. Impact of debt ; Towards debt relief ; Datio in solutum ; Spanish insolvency law; title: V. Human rights standards and norms. Right to housing under international law ; International norms on evictions ; Affordable housing ; International obligation to ensure redress ; Human rights obligations, over-indebtedness, and personal insolvency regimes; title: Acknowledgments.