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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 [...]

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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.

Here are the most recent media hits about the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing’s visit to the United States.
RADIO
PRI’s The World: UN official looks at US housing crisis
LOCAL
Rochester, MN Post-Bulletin: It’s time for us to stop ignoring Native Americans
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INTERNATIONAL
En español:
Inter Press Service America [...]

Read the whole interview here, which was conducted in advance of the UN Housing Mission’s visit to New Orleans.  Sam Jackson is part of Mayday New Orleans, a grassroots group of current and former public housing tenants.  Mr. Jackson helped plan the UN Special Rapporteur’s New Orleans activities.
Here is an excellent snippet of the interview:
LJI: [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing Official Visits New Orleans

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita displaced over 2,000,000 people in the gulf coast region. Government policies aimed at private sector development have prevented the return of a quarter of the New Orleans population and contributed to a significant rise in homelessness, double the [...]

New Orleans Itinerary
Schedule Subject to Change
Friday, October 30th
9.00 – 10:00am Meeting with HUD members
Field officer Marvel Robertson
10:30 – 12:30pm Site visit (Homelessness)
UNITY of Greater New Orleans (TBC)
12:30 – 1:30pm Lunch
2:.00 – 2:30pm Meeting with Councilman James Carter and Officials from the Department of Housing, Office of the Mayor
3:00 – 5:00pm Site visit (Public Housing)
Mayday New [...]

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

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