local struggles in world of crashes
Lecture by David Harvey at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, april 2009
The Urban Roots of the Fiscal Crisis
How many fiscal disruptions over the last thirty years have been urban/property led?
Why does this particular one takes the form it does?
In what ways does this fits into a Marxist theory of urbanization under capitalism?
At the occasion of G 20 protests in London, March/April 2009, the group “London Housing Action Now” produced a leaflet about the current housing and financial crisis, focussing on the U.K. Read
HOUSING IS A RIGHT, NOT A COMMODITY…
Two US comrades investigate the tent city in Sacramento, California
I’ll be around in the dark. I’ll be ever’where. Wherever there’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever there’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad…An’ when our folks [...]
Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing - Current crisis in the housing and financial sector
The present report is the first one presented to the Human Rights Council by the new mandate holder, Raquel Rolnik, who took up her position on 1 May 2008. In view of the current crisis in the housing and [...]
Original transcript appeared on a Brian Mier article, reporting from the WSF in Belem for Vice Magazine :
BELEM - INTRODUCING DAVID HARVEY (LITERALLY), NOW FIND OUT WHY YOU LOST YOUR JOB
http://vice.typepad.com/vice_magazine/2009/02/belem—introdu.html#more
- editor note : Thanks to Patrick Bond for sharing this article -
Orientate policies on the Right to Housing - International Alliance of Inhabitants 13/11/2008 4:06 pm
All the states of the European Union have ratified the international treaties and conventions that recognize and protect housing rights.
Open letter to EU housing ministers - International Alliance of Inhabitants
13/11/2008 3:04 pm
Honourable Ministers,
“What is called the “subprime mortgage crisis” reflects a fundamental crisis in the housingsystem of the United States. Subprime mortgages are mortgages given to borrowers whose incomes or credit ratings or the equity in whose property does not justify a conventionalmortgage at the prevailing interest rate on prevailing terms. Instead, subprime [...]
The following statement was issued today in New York by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik:
The belief that markets will provide adequate housing for all has failed. The current crisis is a stark reminder of this reality. A home is not a commodity – four walls and a roof. It is [...]