We Pay More Money To The United Nations Than Any Other Country In The World And They Want To Investgate Us?
17. Feb, 2010 
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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.
The United Nations Human Rights Council appoints a rapporteur, or independent experts, to investigate human rights conditions around the world. In the case of Ms. Rolnik, a professor of urban planning at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, her “mission” is to tour New York City and six other places in the United States and to report back to the United Nations General Assembly about housing rights violations and advances.
After that, “We send off letters to governments to ask, ‘Is this true? What’s going on?’ and to please intervene,” she said.
Housing advocates will be taking Ms. Rolnik to the Atlantic Yards site in Brooklyn to see the results of the government’s use of eminent domain to seize property; to the New York City Housing Authority’s Grant Houses in Harlem to see how public housing residents live; and to the Bronx to meet residents whose landlords are in foreclosure.http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/1…
I suppose you agree with the former US UN ambassador then?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOINBs8eO…
Worthless organization.
Come on, come on, come on…once again. US is not the centre of the Universe. And it is so well known for let’s say ignore the human rights. You seem to read, so do not limit yourself to things written in US…open your sight…You should take some time and visit people who is living in Brooklyn, Queens and so many other places…then try to live where they live and then you will see..