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The housing crisis is now global. It shows just how undemocratic our nations have become | Leilani Farha

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The housing crisis is now global. It shows just how undemocratic our nations have become  | Leilani Farha
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When we can’t even afford to rent or buy somewhere to live, we have to ask: did we give the financial sector too much power?Leilani Farha is the former UN special rapporteur on adequate housingIn the summer of 2021, I visited a homeless community in a park in Toronto, Canada, and spoke to one of the residents. He was living in a tent in the shadow of brand new skyscrapers, and had been homeless for about five years. At one point he swivelled around, pointed up at a crane on the skyline, and said

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