Crise financeira

A Spanish Drama: Homeless in Debt and in the Street

Published in Thursday April 26th, 2012 In In the media

April 25th, 2012 by Eduardo Rodríguez-Baz After unemployment, and closely linked to it, evictions have become the most horrific aspect of the economic crisis in Spain, accelerating the rise in levels of poverty and social exclusion. The evictions of both house-owners and tenants in debt reached a historic level last year, with an increase of […]

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Better housing for those in need (USA)

Published in Monday April 23rd, 2012 In Opinion

April 23rd, 2012 Our opinion: The Albany Housing Authority is building new apartments and homes. The economics of housing work in favor of low-income families, for a welcome change. Good news on the housing front today, and a pleasant twist to the usual grim story of the 1 percent vs. the 99 percent. New housing is […]

Spain: Lives mortgaged by the crisis

Published in Thursday April 19th, 2012 In In the media

April 19th, 2012 After unemployment, and closely associated to it, housing evictions have become the most frightening face of the economic crisis in Spain, shooting up rates of poverty and social exclusion. The evictions of owners or tenants in debt last year recorded a record high, up nearly 22 percent over 2010, reaching 58 000 […]

Join the debates about mega-events and about housing finance and the right to adequate housing

Published in Monday April 16th, 2012 In News on the Rapporteurs

This month we inaugurate two new topics to be debated in our virtual platform: one on sports mega-events and another on housing finance and its impacts on the right to adequate housing.

Special Rapporteur visits Barcelona and talks about economic crisis and right to housing

Published in Friday March 2nd, 2012 In In the media

(Español) Raquel Rolnik, culpó ayer a la banca de la burbuja inmobiliaria que se ha producido en España y otros muchos países desde 2009. “La toma del sector inmobiliario por los bancos se traduce en que su último objetivo sea la revalorización y demuestra que la burbuja no es fruto de una política no deseada”, afirmó.

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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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Together let’s shout enough to violations! Together we will win the right to housing and to land!

Published in Thursday September 29th, 2011 In News

Resistances and Alternatives are the key words chosen by the Liaison Committee, established during the World Assembly of Inhabitants (WAI) in order to unify the Global Campaign for the right to housing and to land from the 16th September until the 31st October this year.

More than 150,000 take to streets across Israel in largest housing protest yet

Published in Thursday August 4th, 2011 In News

More than 100,000 people took to the streets Saturday to protest the spiraling costs of living in Israel. Marches and rallies took place in eleven cities across the country, with the largest ones taking place in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Be’er Sheva and Haifa. The protesters chanted “the people demand social justice” and “we want justice, not charity.”

Preliminary Note on the mission to the World Bank Group

Published in Friday January 7th, 2011

The Special Rapporteur on adequate housing undertook an official visit to the World Bank Group from 26 October to 1 November 2010.

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Opposition to PETRA’s Mortgage Financing: Read the Letter from US Civil Society

Published in Wednesday November 3rd, 2010 In News

Read the letter written by organizations of the civil society, academics and citzens of US about PETRA (Preservation, Enhancement and Transition of Rental Assistance Act), a new national housing policy. It is directed to the Housing and Urban Depelopment Secretary, Shaun Donovan. The UN Special Rapportteur on the Right to Adequate Housing signs the document. Secretary Shaun Donovan.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
451 7th Street S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20410

Dear Secretary Donovan,

As local and national organizations working to protect the human right to housing in the United States, we write to express our ongoing and grave concerns regarding the current state of PETRA. At a time when public housing residents are in desperate need of stability and increased public resources, aspects of PETRA threaten the sustainability of these communities.

While we commend your agencys response to the long-standing need to streamline rental assistance programs, we remain concerned that elements of PETRA will set into motion a process of public housing privatization. In particular, project-basing our public housing provides no guarantee that these deeply affordable housing units will remain permanent assets to our communities.

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