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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

The Guardian recently published commentary by Sasha Abramsky on the Special Rapporteur on Housing’s visit to the United States.
He writes:
Last week’s United Nations’ findings on America’s homeless crisis couldn’t have been more timely or more depressing. Three years into the post-housing bubble era, special rapporteur Raquel Rolnik detailed a growing crisis in which the poorest [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]