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A decade ago the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) reckoned that in the previous 20 years, starting with 720,000 forced evictions before Seoul 1988, more than two million people had lost their homes to provide Olympic venues.

The International Olympic Committee has agreed to attend a COHRE workshop next week to learn more about the report and the housing implications of the games.

Three quarters of the displaced people are in China, where the authorities are clearing large swaths of residential districts ahead of next year's Olympics, according to a new report by the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE).

In London, where the Olympics are still five years away, COHRE said 1,000 people faced the prospect of having to move.

However, the COHRE report insists that its statistics are conservative, and do not include rural migrants living in the overcrowded central districts of Beijing who the group says will be forced out.

Sadly COHRE now seems to be defunct; perhaps the office was demolished.

There are other sporting events and big public occasions which have led to large-scale evictions and house-clearing, and their impact is reported in the COHRE report: Mega-events, Olympic Games and Housing Rights.

According to COHRE, 720,000 people were forcibly evicted in the preparation for the 1988 Olympics in Seoul and 30,000 people were displaced in the gentrification and development for Atlanta in 1996.

Jean du Plessis, COHRE's executive director, said yesterday he was "very pleased" with the committee's response.