Housing Distress in Jaffa
This position paper is the result of collaboration between Bimkom, the Technion Laboratory for Planning with the Community, and the People of Jaffa’s Committee for the Preservation of Rights to Land and Housing. The report investigates the story of a major wave of eviction and demolition orders facing nearly five hundred homes in Jaffa. Most of these homes are ‘absentee ownership’ properties, administered through a Government body set up to manage the homes of Palestinians who were no longer living in the country after the 1948 war.
Today the homes are occupied by mostly Palestinian Israeli families, under a ‘protected tenancy’ agreement.
Read the English summary here: Housing distress in Jaffa
This position paper is the result of collaboration between Bimkom, the Technion Laboratory for Planning with the Community, and the People of Jaffa’s Committee for the Preservation of Rights to Land and Housing. The report investigates the story of a major wave of eviction and demolition orders facing nearly five hundred homes in Jaffa. Most of these homes are ‘absentee ownership’ properties, administered through a Government body set up to manage the homes of Palestinians who were no longer living in the country after the 1948 war.
Today the homes are occupied by mostly Palestinian Israeli families, under a ‘protected tenancy’ agreement.
Read the English summary here: Housing distress in Jaffa
