# Spain violated the human rights of a family evicted after occupying a dwelling (UN, Oct 2019) * **Views adopted in October 2019 by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.** * "The case concerned a single mother with six children squatting a vacant apartment owned by a financial firm. She had been excluded from the possibility of obtaining social housing. The family was eventually evicted without adequate alternative accommodation: in one of the emergency shelters they stayed at, two of the minor children were separated from their mother and siblings. * This decision (E/C.12/66/D/37/2018) for breaching Article 11.1 of the OP-ICESCR and, by extension, the right to adequate housing of a mother and her six children, considers that **"the eviction of the family occurs without an examination of proportionality by the authorities constituted a violation of their right to housing. Similarly, the Committee considers that the refusal of the public housing author's application without taking into account her situation of need and only because she was occupying a dwelling without a legal title constituted, in itself, a violation of her right to adequate housing."**" * Source: Housing Rights Watch, * The text of the official communication is available in several languages and formats here: --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://housing-base.journalismarena.eu/access-to-housing/court-cases-and-other-jurisprudence/spain-violated-the-human-rights-of-a-family-evicted-after-occupying-a-dwelling-un-oct-2019.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.