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:*[https://www.greens-efa.eu/opinions/who-really-owns-your-city/ Who (really) owns your city? How corporate landlords are using homes to make money] (Feb. 2022) European Greens review the state of affairs in Europe and offer ideas for challenging corporate landlord class and financialization]  
 
:*[https://www.greens-efa.eu/opinions/who-really-owns-your-city/ Who (really) owns your city? How corporate landlords are using homes to make money] (Feb. 2022) European Greens review the state of affairs in Europe and offer ideas for challenging corporate landlord class and financialization]  
 
::[http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/public/media/file/1/7461 Full Study – The Financialization of Housing In Europe “My Home Is An Asset Class” Daniela Gabor & Sebastian Kohl]
 
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*[https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/our-government-runs-an-eviction-machine-to-benefit-landlords-lets-pump-the-brakes Our Government Runs an Eviction Machine to Benefit Landlords—Let’s Pump the Brakes] Fran Quigley, July 3, 2023 ''Commondreams.org''
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*[https://shelterforce.org/2023/06/30/social-housing-how-a-new-generation-of-activists-are-reinventing-housing/ Social Housing: How a New Generation of Activists Is Reinventing Housing] ''Shelterforce'' June 30, 2023

Revision as of 10:13, 14 July 2023

Pittsburgh Human Rights Housing Strategy

In April 2022, Pittsburgh welcomed global housing expert, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Adequate Housing, Leilani Farha to meet with city officials, housing advocates, students and other residents. She pointed out that Pittsburgh’s development is being driven by increasingly global real estate investors and developers, who seek only to generate profits—not to ensure safe and adequate housing for Pittsburgh residents. To address our housing crisis, we need to develop a human rights-based housing strategy for Pittsburgh. This will require strong political leadership by and on behalf of residents and the city of Pittsburgh that syncs housing supply with residents’ needs and incomes. Whoever leads these decisions determines who can live and thrive here. We are working to build community control over our city’s housing policies.

Ms. Farha's visit generated a set of recommendations for how we can work to improve access to affordable housing in Pittsburgh and ward off new threats to existing affordable housing. We compiled this report on the visit, highlighting insights and recommendations from our discussions with Ms. Farha, who now leads global housing rights organization, The Shift. Here you’ll also find helpful links to learning resources and legal tools to help advance housing as a human right. (Download report PDF)

  • Housing Strategy and Action Plan Ideas View and share ideas our community activists are generating as we build a resident-led conversation about our city's housing strategy. What should it look like? How can we build public awareness and support for people-centered housing?
  • Regional Housing Legal Services Concept Paper on Home Rule Charter Amendment-This document argues for efforts to reverse state policy that limits the ability of Pittsburgh's elected officials to regulate private actors who play key roles in shaping urban development and our access to affordable housing. Such authority is key to reversing racial inequities and ongoing displacement of housing insecure residents.

Resources for developing a rights-based housing strategy

  • Existing models of municipal human rights-based housing strategies:
  • Fair Housing Audit Identifying housing needs, existing infrastructure, and property ownership is a key piece of our work.
Full Study – The Financialization of Housing In Europe “My Home Is An Asset Class” Daniela Gabor & Sebastian Kohl

Critiques of Market-Driven Housing are becoming more mainstream