Un Study Calls Bay Expanse Homeless Crisis Human Rights Violation
From Curbed:
Special rapporteur cites SF too Oakland along amongst worst slums inwards the world
Special rapporteur cites SF too Oakland along amongst worst slums inwards the world
In January, United Nations Special Rapporteur Leilani Farha visited Oakland too San Francisco every bit business office of a fact-finding mission most housing too expressed daze too horror at the living atmospheric condition of homeless residents inwards i of the wealthiest societies inwards the world.Last calendar week at the United Nations General Assembly inwards New York, Farha presented her findings inwards a written report titled On Adequate Housing every bit a Component of the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living, which made particular advert of the Bay Area’s “cruel too inhuman” handling of the homeless.Farha’s presentation made alone a few straight references to the Bay Area, inwards the same breath every bit cities similar Belgrade, Mumbai, Lisbon, Buenos Aires, Delhi, United Mexican United States City, too Santiago, where she visited “overcrowded shacks,” “damp abandoned buildings,” “unrecognized settlements,” “half-demolished homes,” too fifty-fifty entire neighborhoods where residents alive inwards “complete darkness during the daytime.”Farha’s written report recounted experiences inwards diverse impoverished communities to a greater extent than or less the world, including fierce majority evictions, garbage piles, too teeming rodent populations.Amidst all that she singles out Bay Area homeless camps—and city policies surrounding them—for what she alleges total to human-rights violations:Attempting to discourage residents from remaining inwards informal settlements or encampments yesteryear denying access to water, sanitation too wellness services too other basic necessities, every bit has been witnessed yesteryear the Special Rapporteur inwards San Francisco too Oakland constitutes barbarous too inhuman handling too is a violation of multiple human rights, including the rights to life, housing, wellness too H2O too sanitation.[...] The correct to a secure habitation is a universal correct nether international human rights law. Lack of safety of tenure tin never justify forced evictions of those residing inwards informal settlements.Farha estimates that nearly a quarter of the world’s population alive inwards “informal settlements”—i.e., slums, encampments, or other kinds of makeshift cum permanent or semi-permanent communities that shape inwards almost whatever major urban heart too mortal too are consistently inwards danger of forced removal yesteryear governing agents....MORE
Previously:
Feb 22
San Francisco: "UN goodness decries homeless atmospheric condition inwards Bay Area every bit ‘cruel,’ ‘unacceptable’"
You may direct keep seen the story.
The UN's particular rapporteur on Adequate Housing has been jet-setting around, United Mexican United States City, Mumbai, S.F., documenting what she sees:
San Francisco: "UN goodness decries homeless atmospheric condition inwards Bay Area every bit ‘cruel,’ ‘unacceptable’"
You may direct keep seen the story.
The UN's particular rapporteur on Adequate Housing has been jet-setting around, United Mexican United States City, Mumbai, S.F., documenting what she sees:
“In United Mexican United States City, I visited a low-income short town that had been moved yesteryear the urban heart too mortal onto empty province nigh a railway line,” [Farha] said. “They had no running water. They stole electricity.” The campsite was noisy too dangerous. She noted that the campsite inwards United Mexican United States is virtually identical to those she visited inwards Oakland, including the Wood Street too 23rd Avenue encampments....The inwards a higher identify snip is from the visited Oakland too San Francisco every bit business office of a fact-finding mission most housing too expressed daze too horror at the living atmospheric condition of homeless residents inwards i of the wealthiest societies inwards the world.
Last calendar week at the United Nations General Assembly inwards New York, Farha presented her findings inwards a written report titled On Adequate Housing every bit a Component of the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living, which made particular advert of the Bay Area’s “cruel too inhuman” handling of the homeless.
Farha’s presentation made alone a few straight references to the Bay Area, inwards the same breath every bit cities similar Belgrade, Mumbai, Lisbon, Buenos Aires, Delhi, United Mexican United States City, too Santiago, where she visited “overcrowded shacks,” “damp abandoned buildings,” “unrecognized settlements,” “half-demolished homes,” too fifty-fifty entire neighborhoods where residents alive inwards “complete darkness during the daytime.”
Farha’s written report recounted experiences inwards diverse impoverished communities to a greater extent than or less the world, including fierce majority evictions, garbage piles, too teeming rodent populations.
Amidst all that she singles out Bay Area homeless camps—and city policies surrounding them—for what she alleges total to human-rights violations:
Attempting to discourage residents from remaining inwards informal settlements or encampments yesteryear denying access to water, sanitation too wellness services too other basic necessities, every bit has been witnessed yesteryear the Special Rapporteur inwards San Francisco too Oakland constitutes barbarous too inhuman handling too is a violation of multiple human rights, including the rights to life, housing, wellness too H2O too sanitation.[...] The correct to a secure habitation is a universal correct nether international human rights law. Lack of safety of tenure tin never justify forced evictions of those residing inwards informal settlements.
Farha estimates that nearly a quarter of the world’s population alive inwards “informal settlements”—i.e., slums, encampments, or other kinds of makeshift cum permanent or semi-permanent communities that shape inwards almost whatever major urban heart too mortal too are consistently inwards danger of forced removal yesteryear governing agents....MORE
Previously:
Feb 22
San Francisco's Dirty Little Secret
And over again inwards November's "visited Oakland too San Francisco every bit business office of a fact-finding mission most housing too expressed daze too horror at the living atmospheric condition of homeless residents inwards i of the wealthiest societies inwards the world.
San Francisco's Dirty Little Secret
And over again inwards November's "visited Oakland too San Francisco every bit business office of a fact-finding mission most housing too expressed daze too horror at the living atmospheric condition of homeless residents inwards i of the wealthiest societies inwards the world.
Last calendar week at the United Nations General Assembly inwards New York, Farha presented her findings inwards a written report titled On Adequate Housing every bit a Component of the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living, which made particular advert of the Bay Area’s “cruel too inhuman” handling of the homeless.
Farha’s presentation made alone a few straight references to the Bay Area, inwards the same breath every bit cities similar Belgrade, Mumbai, Lisbon, Buenos Aires, Delhi, United Mexican United States City, too Santiago, where she visited “overcrowded shacks,” “damp abandoned buildings,” “unrecognized settlements,” “half-demolished homes,” too fifty-fifty entire neighborhoods where residents alive inwards “complete darkness during the daytime.”
Farha’s written report recounted experiences inwards diverse impoverished communities to a greater extent than or less the world, including fierce majority evictions, garbage piles, too teeming rodent populations.
Amidst all that she singles out Bay Area homeless camps—and city policies surrounding them—for what she alleges total to human-rights violations:
Attempting to discourage residents from remaining inwards informal settlements or encampments yesteryear denying access to water, sanitation too wellness services too other basic necessities, every bit has been witnessed yesteryear the Special Rapporteur inwards San Francisco too Oakland constitutes barbarous too inhuman handling too is a violation of multiple human rights, including the rights to life, housing, wellness too H2O too sanitation.[...] The correct to a secure habitation is a universal correct nether international human rights law. Lack of safety of tenure tin never justify forced evictions of those residing inwards informal settlements.
Farha estimates that nearly a quarter of the world’s population alive inwards “informal settlements”—i.e., slums, encampments, or other kinds of makeshift cum permanent or semi-permanent communities that shape inwards almost whatever major urban heart too mortal too are consistently inwards danger of forced removal yesteryear governing agents....MORE
Previously:
Feb 22
Elaine Would Prefer That Amazon Not Move to San Francisco (AMZN)".
As I noted the visited Oakland too San Francisco every bit business office of a fact-finding mission most housing too expressed daze too horror at the living atmospheric condition of homeless residents inwards i of the wealthiest societies inwards the world.
Elaine Would Prefer That Amazon Not Move to San Francisco (AMZN)".
As I noted the visited Oakland too San Francisco every bit business office of a fact-finding mission most housing too expressed daze too horror at the living atmospheric condition of homeless residents inwards i of the wealthiest societies inwards the world.
Last calendar week at the United Nations General Assembly inwards New York, Farha presented her findings inwards a written report titled On Adequate Housing every bit a Component of the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living, which made particular advert of the Bay Area’s “cruel too inhuman” handling of the homeless.
Farha’s presentation made alone a few straight references to the Bay Area, inwards the same breath every bit cities similar Belgrade, Mumbai, Lisbon, Buenos Aires, Delhi, United Mexican United States City, too Santiago, where she visited “overcrowded shacks,” “damp abandoned buildings,” “unrecognized settlements,” “half-demolished homes,” too fifty-fifty entire neighborhoods where residents alive inwards “complete darkness during the daytime.”
Farha’s written report recounted experiences inwards diverse impoverished communities to a greater extent than or less the world, including fierce majority evictions, garbage piles, too teeming rodent populations.
Amidst all that she singles out Bay Area homeless camps—and city policies surrounding them—for what she alleges total to human-rights violations:
Attempting to discourage residents from remaining inwards informal settlements or encampments yesteryear denying access to water, sanitation too wellness services too other basic necessities, every bit has been witnessed yesteryear the Special Rapporteur inwards San Francisco too Oakland constitutes barbarous too inhuman handling too is a violation of multiple human rights, including the rights to life, housing, wellness too H2O too sanitation.[...] The correct to a secure habitation is a universal correct nether international human rights law. Lack of safety of tenure tin never justify forced evictions of those residing inwards informal settlements.
Farha estimates that nearly a quarter of the world’s population alive inwards “informal settlements”—i.e., slums, encampments, or other kinds of makeshift cum permanent or semi-permanent communities that shape inwards almost whatever major urban heart too mortal too are consistently inwards danger of forced removal yesteryear governing agents....MORE
Previously:
Feb 22
first fourth dimension nosotros linked to the Curbed headliner:
visited Oakland too San Francisco every bit business office of a fact-finding mission most housing too expressed daze too horror at the living atmospheric condition of homeless residents inwards i of the wealthiest societies inwards the world.
first fourth dimension nosotros linked to the Curbed headliner:
It's a deliberate policy conclusion yesteryear the municipal too county government. More on that signal adjacent month....Still non own to exercise that but I thought nosotros should update amongst the nod to Curbed. And earlier:
visited Oakland too San Francisco every bit business office of a fact-finding mission most housing too expressed daze too horror at the living atmospheric condition of homeless residents inwards i of the wealthiest societies inwards the world.
Last calendar week at the United Nations General Assembly inwards New York, Farha presented her findings inwards a written report titled On Adequate Housing every bit a Component of the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living, which made particular advert of the Bay Area’s “cruel too inhuman” handling of the homeless.
Farha’s presentation made alone a few straight references to the Bay Area, inwards the same breath every bit cities similar Belgrade, Mumbai, Lisbon, Buenos Aires, Delhi, United Mexican United States City, too Santiago, where she visited “overcrowded shacks,” “damp abandoned buildings,” “unrecognized settlements,” “half-demolished homes,” too fifty-fifty entire neighborhoods where residents alive inwards “complete darkness during the daytime.”
Farha’s written report recounted experiences inwards diverse impoverished communities to a greater extent than or less the world, including fierce majority evictions, garbage piles, too teeming rodent populations.
Amidst all that she singles out Bay Area homeless camps—and city policies surrounding them—for what she alleges total to human-rights violations:
Attempting to discourage residents from remaining inwards informal settlements or encampments yesteryear denying access to water, sanitation too wellness services too other basic necessities, every bit has been witnessed yesteryear the Special Rapporteur inwards San Francisco too Oakland constitutes barbarous too inhuman handling too is a violation of multiple human rights, including the rights to life, housing, wellness too H2O too sanitation.[...] The correct to a secure habitation is a universal correct nether international human rights law. Lack of safety of tenure tin never justify forced evictions of those residing inwards informal settlements.
Farha estimates that nearly a quarter of the world’s population alive inwards “informal settlements”—i.e., slums, encampments, or other kinds of makeshift cum permanent or semi-permanent communities that shape inwards almost whatever major urban heart too mortal too are consistently inwards danger of forced removal yesteryear governing agents....MORE
Previously:
Feb 22
Bonhams Auctioneers Has Allegedly Installed Sprinklers To Douse Homeless Outside the Building
It seems they got the thought from the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Now, the auctioneers may intend they are offering the homeless a cool, refreshing shower but man child the optics are bad.
From Curbed San Francisco:
SF Luxury Auction House Allegedly Turns Sprinklers on Homeless [Update]
Bonhams Auctioneers Has Allegedly Installed Sprinklers To Douse Homeless Outside the Building
It seems they got the thought from the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Now, the auctioneers may intend they are offering the homeless a cool, refreshing shower but man child the optics are bad.
From Curbed San Francisco:
SF Luxury Auction House Allegedly Turns Sprinklers on Homeless [Update]
...Using a sprinkler organisation to take homeless people from structures is non a novel idea. In 2015, the San Francisco Roman Catholic Archdiocese got into hot H2O subsequently it was discovered that they were using sprinklers to regularly douse people camping ground overnight inwards the doorways of St. Mary’s Cathedral....When youv'e lost the Catholics...
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