EVICT Seminar on Access to Housing

November 17th, 2022

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.

In this first seminar of the series on different aspects of the right to housing, Dr. Roxani Fragkou, Dr. Andrei Quintiá Pastrana, and Stefan van Tongeren, LLM, discussed access rights. The speakers each addressed obstacles and barriers certain groups and people faced on their road to adequate housing.

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.

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