The Shift is the global movement to secure the right to housing, and housing has quickly become the front line of defence against the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Global Director and former UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Leilani Farha, says housing has “rarely been more of a life or death situation.”
Government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic need to incorporate the right to housing and particularly consider the impact on precariously housed persons who cannot just ‘stay home’.