In one case of eviction resistance last week, activists from Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth in London answered a call from a 14-year-old girl to successfully resist her family's eviction from a flat in an estate that Southwark council had marked for demolition.
Insecurity of tenure means that women and children must work near their dwellings so they are close at hand in case of eviction.
In a report on their findings, called Making Rights Real, they said: "We sometimes come across repeat cases of retaliatory eviction where landlords evict tenants again and again instead of addressing the disrepair problem".
In cases of tenant eviction, domestic violence, unfair dismissal, denial of social security and public health, they provided remedies that were available in theory but rarely in practice.
Thus, in cases of forced eviction, the court has found that the government acts unreasonably and hence unconstitutionally where it fails to engage in a meaningful manner with those potentially affected by the eviction about the potential eviction and about the provision of alternative accommodation.
It also calls on the IOC to intervene "in the event of serious abuse," which it says can include the mistreatment and exploitation of "migrant workers at Olympic venue construction sites".Other controversies surrounding the Sochi games include cases of forced eviction from future Olympic sites with little or no compensation for those moved.
In New York, activists have used large-scale public murals and advertising billboards on the metro to inform residents of their rights in cases of housing eviction or police intimidation, and recently published research in India suggests that workers who display a visible symbol indicating their hostility to corruption are less likely to be asked by colleagues or bosses to engage in malpractice.
In Germany, there are an estimated 33,000 cases of forced eviction every year, the report stated.
Another type of eviction is called a holdover case.
The squatters discuss strategy in case of an eviction.
