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U.N. Looks Closely at Affordability of New York City Housing



The United Nations wants to know if affordable housing is so tough to come by in New York City that it actually violates human rights and has assigned “a special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing,” to check the city’s affordable housing, says The New York Times. The rapporteur, Raquel Rolnik, spent three days touring the city with housing advocates and city officials to “hear the voices of those who are suffering on the ground.”

Rolnik visited the Atlantic Yards site in Brooklyn to see the results of the government’s use of eminent domain to seize property; the New York City Housing Authority’s Grant Houses in Harlem to see how public housing residents live; and the Bronx to meet residents whose landlords are in foreclosure.

After her tour of New York City, she will survey the housing situations in Chicago, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Washington, a South Dakota Indian reservation, and Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Her report to the General Assembly is expected in March 2010.   10/23/2009

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