{"id":2936,"date":"2011-07-26T16:22:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T14:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2011-08-02T16:29:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T14:29:02","slug":"netanyahu%e2%80%99s-housing-plan-only-a-partial-solution-to-the-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2011\/07\/26\/netanyahu%e2%80%99s-housing-plan-only-a-partial-solution-to-the-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu\u2019s Housing Plan: Only a Partial Solution to the Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Coalition for Affordable Housing, of which ACRI is a member, is pleased that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/national\/netanyahu-s-plan-affordable-housing-for-students-and-young-couples-in-israel-1.375358\">the government finally responded to the public demand to address the housing crisis<\/a>. However, the coalition warns that the plan does not provide comprehensive solutions on all housing issues.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Attorney Gil Gan-Mor, Coordinator of ACRI&#8217;s Right to Housing Project<\/strong>: \u201cIt appears the demonstrations have helped spark a change in perception; nonetheless, the government has yet to espouse the central message: this is not a struggle of one sector or another, but a broad social struggle. Affordable housing is a universal right and it is the State\u2019s responsibility to ensure that every person is able to realize this right.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Main points for improvement in the plan presented today by Netanyahu:<\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Addressing all sectors of society, not just \u201cyoung couples\u201d:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe proposals address young couples and students but Israeli households also include senior citizens, single-parent families, and singles. Arab citizens of Israel that do not own land (estimated at 30% of the entire Arab sector) experience serious housing problems and there is no rental or sales market in their areas of residence.<\/li>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<li><strong>Initiatives must be anchored in legislation that is both detailed and backed by allocated budgets<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<p>Amendment to the Israel Lands Authority Law; the inclusion of a chapter on affordable housing in the new planning law; legislation for regulating the rental market and anchoring the eligibility for rent assistance; and the &#8220;thawing&#8221; of the public housing law, which was frozen in the economic Omnibus Law.<\/p>\n<ul>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<li><strong>The expediting of the construction process <\/strong>must be done responsibly by adding regulations to the planning process, including consultants on social issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/israelaffordablehousing.blogspot.com\/\">Coalition for Affordable Housing:<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAssociation for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) | Technion Community Planning Lab |Bimkom \u2013 Planners for Planning Rights | The Association for Distributive Justice | Human Rights in Society \u2013 Legal Clinic of the University  of Haifa | Movement for Decent Living | Itach \u2013Women Lawyers for Social Justice | Shatil<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coalition for Affordable Housing, of which ACRI is a member, is pleased that the government finally responded to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2011\/07\/26\/netanyahu%e2%80%99s-housing-plan-only-a-partial-solution-to-the-crisis\/\">Read more<span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1,48,35,26,98],"tags":[24,96],"class_list":["post-2936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arab-citizens-of-israel","category-democracy-and-civil-liberties","category-housing-rights","category-land-and-planning-rights","category-social-and-economic-rights","category-tent-protest","tag-media","tag-policy-advocacy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2936"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936\/revisions\/2970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}