The Agenda welcomes Leilani Farha, UN special rapporteur on the right to housing and executive director of Canada Without Poverty, to discuss why housing is a human right and not a commodity.
As housing prices soar globally, more people are rethinking home ownership. Amid the crisis, creative solutions are emerging: friends are pooling resources to buy homes they could never afford alone.
Despite an uneven global economic recovery since the 2008 financial crisis, adequate and affordable housing is increasingly out of reach to hundreds of millions of people, according to the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Adequate Housing, Leilani Farha.
