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Strategies must be adopted that protect affordable homes and insulate housing against speculative investors

Strategies must be adopted that protect affordable homes and insulate housing against speculative investors

A new documentary launching in the UK today (28 February), entitled Push, follows UN special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing Leilani Farha around the world as she attempts to make sense of the global housing crisis.

Around the globe, documentary finds, people are paying a high price as housing becomes the latest big investment commodity.

WE WATCHED IT, AND YOU SHOULD TOO. The 16th annual Reel Stories film festival is just around the corner and will feature four days of hand-picked, thought-provoking documentary films from all over the world.

A visiting United Nations representative has called New Zealand's housing crisis a "significant human rights crisis" and it's time the right to housing was wrenched from the hands of the private market.

New Zealand's housing crisis is "a violation of the promises" made by governments over the years according to the Human Rights Commissioner.

Special rapporteur says successive governments have contributed to what she called a ‘human rights crisis’.

"If you look at the logical extension of what’s going on, whether it’s a move-along law or one-way bus ticket, it’s 'let’s erase people, let’s render them invisible.'"

South Korean film “Parasite”, which became the first non-English language movie to win the Best Picture award at the Oscars, highlights the widening divide and lack of affordable housing in the capital Seoul, according to social analysts and academics.