EVICT seminar on access to housing

In this academic year (22/23), the EVICT project will organize a series of hybrid seminars on the different aspects of the right to housing: 1) access to housing; 2) rights in the home; and 3) exit rights.

The first seminar of this series is on access to housing, with Dr. Roxani Fragkou, Dr. Andrei Quintiá Pastrana, and Stefan van Tongeren, LLM. Each of the speakers will address the obstacles and barriers certain groups and people face on their road to adequate housing: asylum seekers, ex-offenders, and obstacles because of the digitalization of administrative procedures. Central in each of these presentations is the role of the international right to housing.

Programme

16:00    Opening by Michelle Bruijn
16:05    Talk by Roxani Fragkou – ‘Access to housing for asylum seekers and beneficiaries of international protection in the EU: myth or reality?’
16:20    Talk by Stefan van Tongeren – ‘Finding housing after prison: closed doors and windows of opportunity’
16:35    Talk by Andrei Quintiá Pastrana – ‘A right in the cloud: emerging digital obstacles in the access to housing’
16:50    Discussion between the speakers
17:05    Q&A
17:30    Closing remarks by Michelle Bruijn

About the speakers

Dr. Roxani Fragkou is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law (Department of Legal Methods) of the University of Groningen. She has worked at the Faculty of Law and the Institute of Political Studies of the University of Strasbourg contributing to the teaching mainly of Public Law courses. Dr. Roxani Fragkou has been employed as a Coordinator/human rights officer at the Greek National Human Rights Institution (2013-2022), where she dealt with a broad range of human rights issues, including social and economical rights and the right to housing, in particular. Within the EVICT project she examines the forms discrimination might take as regards the enjoyment of the right to housing, while focusing on the impact these discriminatory practices may have when applied on individuals or groups living in vulnerable situations.

Dr. Andrei Quintiá Pastrana is a postdoctoral researcher in the EVICT project and the Department of Legal Methods (Faculty of Law), University of Groningen. His main fields of research are public law, housing law, algorithm law and empirical research methods.

Stefan van Tongeren, LLM is a Dutch researcher working in the Department of Legal Methods at the University of Groningen. He is one of the coordinators of the EVICT project, responsible for data collection and for building and maintaining the project’s network. Stefan is particularly interested in the right to adequate housing in relation to other (sometimes conflicting) fundamental rights. He is currently finishing his doctoral thesis which focuses on balancing ex-offenders’ right to have access to stable housing with (future) neighbours’ right to a safe and undisturbed enjoyment of their home.

The seminar is in a hybrid format where the speakers are present onsite. Attendance is possible online. There will be moderators present to monitor the online chat, and ensure that the Q&A runs smoothly.

The seminar is held on November 17th, 2022 from 4:00 PM CET till 5:35 PM CET (Amsterdam/Berlin/Paris, UTC+01:00).

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