United Nations Investigator Probes US Housing Crisis

I have to ask....on what authority do they have a right or are they being able to do this?

UN Investigator Probes US Housing Crisis

And a United Nations investigator has opened a probe into the US housing crisis. Raquel Rolnik, the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, will investigate issues including public housing, homelessness and foreclosures. On Thursday, Rolnik held a public meeting with housing activists in New York.

UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing Raquel Rolnik: If we take housing as a human right, you have to go back to the idea that housing is a social issue before and more priority than housing as a commodity, as a financial asset.

As part of her inquiry Rolnik is expected to visit at least six other cities and towns, including Chicago, Los Angeles and New Orleans.
Quoted from StealthFusion.com




http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/23/headlines#18

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• United nations
• human rights
• united states
• obama
• Raquel Rolnik
• housing
• homeless
• foreclosures
• Rapporteur

[zestymike48]

There are SO many vacancies here in Corpus Christi, TX and I am sure across the nation. Lots of very nice buildings just standing empty, and yet we can't qualify to buy them. Vacant properties and so many having to live out of their cars?!! It makes no sense to me.