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By meredith, on February 26th, 2010
By Chris Famighetti
Intern, NESRI Human Right to Housing Program
Taraneh Ghajar Jerven’s recent article in the Christian Science Monitor, “2010 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony: What about Vancouver’s homeless?” highlights the injustices perpetrated in the run-up to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.(1) Jerven discusses the expensive development costs associated with the 2010 Olympic Games, where the original [...]
By meredith, on February 25th, 2010
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 [...]
By meredith, on January 6th, 2010
News of the first official visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing continues to ripple through communities in the United States and even abroad. Even though Special Rapporteur Rolnik has departed, it feels as though her mission continues. Here’s what people have been writing since the last posting:
General
Poor Peoples Economic Human [...]
By rob, on November 13th, 2009
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 [...]
By meredith, on November 12th, 2009
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 [...]
By meredith, on November 9th, 2009
“Millions lack access to affordable and adequate housing in the U.S.”
Read the United Nations press release here or here.
En français: Etats-Unis : Des millions de gens victimes de loyers trop élevés, selon un expert
From the press release:
WASHINGTON D.C. (8 November 2009) – The UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik, warned at the end [...]
By davin, on November 7th, 2009
Reported by Davin Corona, ¡Comunidad Presente!, Los Angeles, CA
Wow… What can I say? I’ve always known that Los Angeles had a housing crisis but what I realized during the United Nations (U.N.) Special Rapporteur’s visit to our City was that we are now in the midst of a housing and economic catastrophe…
Never has there been [...]
By meredith, on November 6th, 2009
Washington D.C. Itinerary
Schedule subject to change
Thursday, November 5th
11:00am Meeting with Gail W. Laster, Deputy Chief Counsel and
Representative Barney Frank, Financial Service Committee
1:30pm Meeting with Valerie Jarrett, White House Office of Public Engagement
Friday, November 6th
10:00am De-briefing with Government officials
2:30pm Meeting with Brookings Institute
Saturday, November 7th
9:00-11:30am Public housing tour and town hall meeting
Friends and Residents of Arthur [...]
By meredith, on November 6th, 2009
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.
By meredith, on November 4th, 2009
First slideshow by Nicholas Dahmann.
Coalition for Economic Survival members participate with allies in a town hall meeting on November second with Raquel Rolnik, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing.
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing visits and is welcomed by Coalition for Economic Survival tenants at their at-risk HUD subsidized [...]
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