Movement Blog for the Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Raquel Rolnik, UN Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, attended a town hall meeting in New Orleans on October 30th, 2009.   Here is a video of the highlights.

Megan Cottrell wrote about UN Special Rapporteur’s trip through Chicago’s public housing at the Chicago Now blog.
Here is a video Ms. Cottrell shot at the Cabrini row houses.

Cabrini’s transformation from Megan Cottrell on Vimeo.

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

DeBorah White, resident of the Iberville in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Watch the highlights from the 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 another 150 watching the live stream on line, the event was a great success. [...]

On Friday, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing Rachel Rolnik spoke at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Here is a video of her speaking from the United Nation’s Youtube account:

You can find the UN news piece on her talk here, titled “Climate change talks must include focus on adequate housing, [...]

New York Times: Affordable? U.N. Puts a Questioning Eye on New York’s Housing
The Indypendent: U.N. Housing Rapporteur Kicks Off U.S. Tour in New York City
Democracy Now!: UN Investigator Probes US Housing Crisis
See the relevant portion here:

Your Call on KALW 91.7fm in San Francisco: Agenda for a New Economy: Does public housing have a future?
NESRI’s Tiffany [...]