Movement Blog for the Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights

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
The Loyola Maroon: Law students participate in United Nations town hall meeting
INTERNATIONAL
En español:
Inter Press Service America [...]

Indian Country Today: Pine Ridge: A housing issue
St. Paul Minneapolis Star Tribune: UN Visits America’s Third World
A quote from this article:
According to a tribal housing report submitted to the U.N. rapporteur, reservation housing is “in a deplorable state,” with most of the government-built homes “severely overcrowded.” As many as 20 or 25 people may [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Raquel Rolnik, visit to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota on November 1st during her official visit to the United States where she is focusing on the human right to housing. Pine Ridge was her only scheduled visit to an Indian reservation. Photos courtesy of [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing Visits Pine Ridge Reservation
Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Indian Reservation is located across Bennett, Jackson, and Shannon Counties in the southwest corner of South Dakota. Residents of Pine Ridge face serious problems of poverty, short life expectancies, and extremely poor public housing conditions. The UN Special [...]

Pine Ridge Itinerary
Schedule Subject to Change
Sunday, November 1st
9:30 – 10:30am Welcoming Ceremony and Testimonies Oglala Lakota College, Eagle Nest District Council, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Oglala Sioux Tribe Housing Authority, Porcupine District Council, International Indian Treaty Council, National American Indian Housing Council
10:30 – 11:00am Driving Tour around Wambli community
11:00 – 12:45pm Drive to Porcupine community and [...]

10/26/09 National Native News ran the info on the upcoming visit
10/14/09 Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community posted the Treaty Council Press Release
10/13/09 Free Peltier Now Blog posted Treaty Council Press Release
10/13/09 Censored News posted the Treaty Council Press Release
10/12/09 Native American Times posted the Treaty Council Press Release
10/12/09 Indigenous Peoples Issues posted the Treaty Council Press [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Bill Means
International Indian Treaty Council
Cell: 612-386-4030
Email: Bill.Means@state.mn.us
PINE RIDGE TOWN HALL MEETING WITH THE UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON ADEQUATE HOUSING
Pine Ridge residents and other Indigenous Peoples affected by housing issues including foreclosure, homelessness, and public housing (HUD and non-HUD housing) are encouraged to participate in a town hall meeting with a United [...]