Town Hall Meeting with the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing

The Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary will host a Town Hall Meeting with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing Raquel Rolnik

Thursday, October 22
6:30 PM
James Chapel
Union Theological Seminary
3041 Broadway at 121st Street
New York, New York


Raquel Rolnik, the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing will be holding a Public Town Hall Meeting at Union Theological Seminary to discuss concerns on public housing, social housing, homelessness, and foreclosure crises in the United States.   Personal testimonials from people directly affected by inadequate housing will be shared.

This Town Hall Meeting is the beginning of the UN Special Rapporteur’s official mission  to the United States to examine and report back on the housing situation. The Special Rapporteur is appointed by the UN Human Rights Council.  Raquel Rolnik’s visit from October 22nd  - November 8th will focus on public housing, Section 8, homelessness and the foreclosure crisis. She will be visiting Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, DC, Pine Ridge, South Dakota and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to assess adequate housing in the United States.

The National Economic & Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) and the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty will be coordinating the U.S. visit, with significant involvement from grassroots groups around the country.

The New York City visit is coordinated by a coalition of organizations including: Picture the Homeless, Good Old Lower East Side (Goles)/(Phroles), Organizing Asian Communities (CAAAV), Fifth Avenue Committee, Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE), Make the Road, Coalition to Save Harlem, Concerned Citizens of Greater Harlem, East Harlem Anti-Displacement Taskforce, Partnership for the Homeless, Tenants and Neighbors, Urban Justice Center, Mothers on the Move, Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Program (NEDAP), The Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB), National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI), Poverty Initiative… AND MORE

Follow her National Tour on the UN Housing Mission Blog.