Reclaiming Gotham: Bill de Blasio and the Movement to End America's Tale of Two Cities

摘要

In 2009, the United Nations' special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik, met with housing activists, tenants, homeless groups and officials to assess whether the housing crisis in New York City violated basic human rights. New York, host to Wall Street and the centre of global financial capital, calls itself 'the real estate capital of the world', but countering its financial excesses stands a long history of housing activism and relatively progressive housing policies as well.