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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 [...]

Last week Raquel Rolnik, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, released her report on her visit to the United States. This report will be presented before the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Read it here.
Some excerpts from the report:
The Special Rapporteur wishes to emphasize that low-income housing assistance programmes should receive additional [...]

The End Homelessness Blog on Change.org has listed “The 10 Most Notable Homelessness Stories of 2009.” Included is the UN Housing Mission to the United States. Take a look at the whole list.
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News of the first official visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing continues to ripple through communities in the United States and even abroad. Even though Special Rapporteur Rolnik has departed, it feels as though her mission continues. Here’s what people have been writing since the last posting:
General
Poor Peoples Economic Human [...]

More domestic media on the housing mission
Friends of Leonard Peltier: Preliminary findings by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing
Narcosphere: Return to Alcatraz: 40 Years of Resistance
Common Man News: New York City homeless population at an all-time high
Talk to St. Ambrose: Housing is a Human Right
Arab American News: U.N. investigator probes U.S. [...]

 
I’m thankful that I was able to overcome homelessness 
I’m thankful for the ability to challenge elected and appointed officials in New York City and around the country to end homelessness by eliminating the root causes of this social illness
I’m thankful that I’ve been able to share my experiences with others suffering from the effects of [...]

The Guardian recently published commentary by Sasha Abramsky on the Special Rapporteur on Housing’s visit to the United States.
He writes:
Last week’s United Nations’ findings on America’s homeless crisis couldn’t have been more timely or more depressing. Three years into the post-housing bubble era, special rapporteur Raquel Rolnik detailed a growing crisis in which the poorest [...]

By Rob Robinson, Picture the Homeless
Friday, November 13, 2009
The eighteen day visit of Raquel Rolnik, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, came to an end Sunday November 8th in Washington DC. All the city chairs came to DC, including Sam Jackson from Mayday New Orleans, JR Fleming from Chicago’s Coalition to [...]

The Guardian: UN investigator accuses US of shameful neglect of homeless
The Guardian: UN meets homeless victims of American property dream
Times-Picayune: U.N. official studies housing shortage
Amsterdam News: UN special rapporteur sounds alarm on housing in America
West Orlando News: UN Official: Millions lack access to Adequate Housing in the US
Louisiana Justice Institute: Preliminary Findings Released by UN [...]

Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context
Raquel Rolnik
Mission to the United States of America
(22 October to 8 November 2009)
7 November 2009
I was welcomed everywhere I visited by government officials, civil society and residents themselves in communities [...]