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UN investigator accuses US of shameful neglect of homeless

A United Nations special investigator has accused the American government of pouring billions of dollars into rescuing banks and big business while treating as "invisible" a deepening homeless crisis.

Raquel Rolnik, the UN special rapporteur for the right to adequate housing, who has just completed a seven-city tour of America, said it was shameful that a country as wealthy as the US was not spending more money on lifting its citizens out of homelessness and substandard, overcrowded housing.

Read the Guardian report here.
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* My friend and colleague G.W. Rolle -- who took me on an amazing tour of the streets of St. Petersburg -- was chosen to speak to the UN investigator.

Full post as published by the 13th juror on November 13, 2009 (boomark / email).