Audio and video

Here you find audio and video files on the right to housing worldwide. If you or your organisation have articles in these formats that you would like to promote, contact the Rapporteur.

“Taking Over, Taking Back”

Published in Monday September 23rd, 2013

The foreclosure crisis hit Chicago hard. It left in its wake 62,000 vacant properties in the city and more than 100,000 people living on the streets. Enter the Chicago-Anti-Eviction Campaign. The organization works to put displaced families into foreclosed homes and rebuild the communities broken down by vacant houses. Influenced by the civil disobedience of the civil rights movement, their tactics don’t always align with the law. Watch the documentary film by Jessica Murphy and Elissa Nadworny.

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Spain’s housing crisis

Published in Monday May 13th, 2013

Spain’s Senate is debating new laws to give cash-strapped Spaniards more time to meet mortgage repayments and avoid eviction. Under the changes, banks would have to wait two years before repossessing the homes of disadvantaged families. For now, Spain finds itself continuing to evict people from their homes, even as millions of properties sit empty. Two very different solutions to this problem are now arising.

A Time to Fight

Published in Wednesday January 23rd, 2013

Faced with the foreclosure of her home, Detroit resident LaKeisha Tuggle devised creative solutions to weather economic hardship. Click here to watch.

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In the US, Latinos are hit hard by foreclosure spike

Published in Wednesday June 27th, 2012

June 25, 2012 Watch here the report made by CNN Money about how the economic crisis has affected the Latino population in the US, specially regarding foreclosures.   Source: CNN

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“More than a roof”: documentary shows impacts by the housing and economic crises in USA

Published in Tuesday December 13th, 2011

More Than a Roof is a grassroots documentary following Raquel Rolnik, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, on her first official mission to the United States in 2009.  The film highlights the testimonies of individuals directly impacted by the severe housing and economic crises we are facing in cities and towns across the country. 

More Than a Roof from NESRI on Vimeo.

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