Movement Blog for the Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights

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 [...]

China View: United Nations housing specialist investigates housing problems in Chicago
People’s Daily Online: United Nations housing specialist investigates housing problems in Chicago

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.

Chicago Public Radio: United Nations Housing Specialist Tours Cabrini Green
Medill Reports, Chicago, Northwestern University: UN investigates whether Chicago housing violates human rights

Thursday, October 29th
9:00 – 10:00am Meeting with the Chicago Commission on Human Relations
10:30 – 11:45am Meeting with Ms. Ellen Sahli, First Deputy Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Community Development
12:00pm Meeting with Marion Rondel – Illinois Dept. of Human Rights
1:30 – 2:30pm Meeting with HUD
3:00 – 5:50pm Open to meetings, interviews

There is a significant housing crisis in Chicago facing poor and low-income communities. Public housing developments that were once famous for being centers of crime, drugs, and gang violence, such as Cabrini Green on the Near North Side, have since been razed and residents are still awaiting the construction of affordable replacement units. These displaced [...]

Chicagoans: Voice your opinion about foreclosure, homelessness, and public housing tonight!
There will be a Town Hall meeting with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing.
7:00 pm, 10/27/09
Fernwood United Methodist Church
10057 South Wallace,
Chicago, Illinois
All are invited. The event is free and open to the public. No RSVPs necessary.

Chicago Now: Is housing affordable in Chicago? UN representative to find out
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless: U.N. Special Rapporteur visits Chicago

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 26, 2009
National Media Coordinator: Olesia Plokhii 617.721.9151, olesia@nesri.org
Local Contact: J.R. Fleming, 312.287.7228
Local Media Coordinator: Sunyata Altenor 404.839.5405
UN Expert to Investigate Chicago’s Housing Crisis During National Mission
Amid a global economic recession precipitated by the U.S. sub-prime lending crisis, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing will be in Chicago [...]