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A Blog For All: UN Wants To Know If Lack of Affordable Housing In NYC Violates Human Rights
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FN lurer på om høye boligpriser i N.Y. bryter med menneskerettighetene?!?! http://bit.ly/2z4xeX 24 days ago |
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@ham1299 NY Times story, http://bit.ly/30RKUj. Read it & weep! 24 days ago |
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Seriously? >> RT @gwttds UN investigating whether pricey housing like NYC's violates the "right to affordable housing." http://bit.ly/30RKUj 24 days ago |
UN Wants To Know If Lack of Affordable Housing In NYC Violates Human Rights
A Blog For All —
The New York Times has a curious report noting that the United Nations is looking into the question of whether a lack of affordable housing somehow violates human rights. The United Nations has assigned an official, “a special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing,” to check the city’s affordable housing. The rapporteur, Raquel Rolnik, is to tour the city for the next three days with housing advocates and city officials to “hear the voices of those who are suffering on the ground,” she said. The United Nations Human Rights Council appoints a rapporteur, or independent ...
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The Agitator —
... probably isn’t going to help your public image problem.
Speaking of crazy lawsuits, I don’t think any amount of money could have compensated this guy for the humiliation he had to endure in court as part of his own lawsuit. And he lost. Obviously he needed better briefs. (Sorry.)
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Stimulus money has been going to companies already under investigation for defrauding the federal government.
U.N. investigating whether NYC’s high rents are a human rights violation. Seriously. ...
Three-bedrooms, two-bath, stucco exterior, kitchen has granite countertops houses grow wild in the forest? [Darleen Click]
protein wisdom —
Who knew? Everybody knows New York City is an expensive place to live. But the United Nations wants to know if affordable housing is so tough to come by that it actually violates human rights . The United Nations has assigned an official, “a special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing,” to check the city’s affordable housing. The rapporteur, Raquel Rolnik, is to tour the city for the next three days with housing advocates and city officials to “hear the voices of those who are suffering on the ground,” she said. [...] At a town hall meeting last night in Morningside ...
Not a Parody -- By: Jonah Goldberg
The Corner on National Review Online —
This is the best story of the day! The UN Human Rights Council is troubled -- deeply, deeply troubled -- by rumors that New York City's lack of affordable housing violates human rights. So it is dispatching “ ...
Oh, Good. UN Sending Human Rights Investigators To U.S.
Pirate's Cove —
... Everybody knows New York City is an expensive place to live. But the United Nations wants to know if affordable housing is so tough to come by that it actually violates human rights. ...
