Movement Blog for the Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights

Today the Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights, along with the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative and Housing is a Human Right released a new trailer for an upcoming documentary about the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing’s first official fact finding mission to the United States in the Fall [...]

Raquel Rolnik, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, will appear before the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva tomorrow. There she will present her report entitled “Promotion and Protection of All Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Including the Right to Development,” based on her first official Fact Finding [...]

J.R. Fleming Reports on Chicago Stop of UN Housing Mission to the U.S. from NESRI on Vimeo.

Watch the full (actually due to technical difficulties, there is no audio for the first 16 minutes) New York City Town Hall Meeting with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing. The event happened last night in James Chapel at Union Theological Seminary. With over 200 people in attendance, and [...]

Rob Robinson of Picture the Homeless Speaks About the Upcoming UN Housing Mission from NESRI on Vimeo.
Rob Robinson, Board Member and Housing Campaign Leader of Picture the Homeless, and Chair of the NYC planning committee, speaks about the upcoming United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing’s Mission to the United States.

Yesterday the United Nations released a media advisory about the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing’s First Mission to the U.S.  The Special Rapporteur, Ms. Raquel Rolnik, arrives in the U.S. tomorrow.
“I will collect first-hand information on the status of realization of the right to adequate housing in the US, with particular emphasis [...]

In a statement released today, entitled “During the Celebrations:  World Habitat Day 2009” NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa calls attention to the serious housing crisis facing the US and the less than impressive steps taken by HUD under the new Obama administration to address the situation. 
She states “… let’s consider holding off on the celebrations [...]

View a photo gallery of the recent Campaign Retreat in DC on May 11 – 12.

In this April 26 Monthly Review Zine piece, Jay Arena discusses how Post-Katrina New Orleans reveals an Obama Administration that continues to support many of the same neo-liberal policies supported by the Bush Administration.
Has Change Come to Post-Katrina New Orleans?
Bush, Obama, and the First 100 Days
by Jay Arena
As people in the U.S. and around the [...]

Susie Shannon, working with Los Angeles Coalition Against Hunger & Homelessness speaks before Maxine Waters. Footage shot by Stan Wipfli and Brian Batchelder, edited by Nancy Fulton