Movement Blog for the Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights

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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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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

The two most widely-read newspapers in Wilkes-Barre, PA, the Times-Leader and the Citizens Voice, have published pieces profiling Frank Sindaco, the coordinator of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Organizing Center, who speaks about the housing crisis in Wilkes-Barre ahead of the Sunday, October 25th Wilkes-Barre stop on the first official United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right [...]