In 2008, Aitec published a special issue of Passerelle entitled "Europe pas sans toît" ("Actions against a homeless Europe"), which presented an overview of the situation of housing in Europe. In 2008, the crisis and its impact on housing were already a topic discussed in the issue, given that the subprime crisis had just taken place. Four years later, we believed it was important to call upon some of the autors in the previous issue as well as to contact others, to show the devasting impact of this "crisis" on inhabitants and their living environment. By providing a critical analysis of the crisis, viewed through the perspective of housing and from a European angle, we hope we were able to sucessfully avoid the pitfall of cliché - even through the term is omnipresent in the media and in political discourse -, and that we have suceeded in taking up the twofold challenge we had defined: to place the question of housing at the centre of the analysis of the crisis. Charlotte Mathivet is the editor of this issue of Passerelle. She is a political scientist and a Right to Housing and Right to the City activist. She works for Aitec and the international network Habitat International Coalition (HIC). AITEC (Association Internationale des Techniciens, Experts et Chercheurs - International Organisation of Engineers, Experts and Researchers) is a network of activists, professionals and researchers who participate in social struggles. AITEC contributes to producing expertise which is rooted in social struggles and to setting forth alternative propositions for the defence and enforcement of fundamental rights.

Housing in Europe : Time to Evict the Crisis, Passerelle, Editions AITEC, Septembre 2012.

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