U.N. to Investigate Human Rights Housing Violations in United States

The United Nations has assigned an official, “a special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing,” to check the New York 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.

It is interesting to note that Mrs. Rolnik believes that housing is a human right, (translation - "entitlement"), as evidenced in her statement that:

"Housing is a social issue before and more of a priority than housing as a commodity and a financial asset."

Mrs. Rolnik has indicated that the free market and mortgage companies alone cannot serve to ensure that all citizens are provided with their basic human right for adequate, affordable, and "green" housing. 

If you read between the lines of Mrs. Rolnik's opinions you are, not surprisingly, faced with a marked similarity with our own Presidient's proclivity for the "redistribution" of wealth among our nation's citizens.

Unless people start to wake up to the realities of what is transiring in our government right before their eyes, we will soon wake up to yet another multi-billion entitlement program for the construction of environmentally correct housing to be made available to all those who cannot pay for their own housing.

Peter J. Mahon