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On 14 September 2021, The Shift received a reply to the letter of concern we wrote to the Mayor’s Office regarding the clearing of encampments in August. The reply is below, in its entirety.  

Homeless encampments have continued to grow in size and number across Canada since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of our work, The Shift monitors city engagement with these communities to help protect the human rights of residents and provide guidance on implementing the human rights approach to city officials. After hearing of...

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’.