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as well as a $3.00 trillion dollar social services and environmental package. that's because progressives and conservatives in the democratic party are split on just how much money to spend, even though they all say they want the same things. now the members of the progressive wing, the more liberal wing, have been holding things up in the house of representatives. they say their members were sent because their voters want to see more spending on things such as health care, education, child care, and a clean environment. and they intend to deliver. they say without a guarantee that that $3.00 trillion dollar bill is going to be passed. they're not going to vote for the $1.00 trillion dollar infrastructure bill, which would improve roads, bridges, internet connections, telecommunications, and the nation's power grid. because of this political standing,

the president was called in, basically to try to get the more conservative wing of the democratic party and the more liberal wing to find common ground. but even after that closed door entreaty, they didn't really agree on what to do next. this is what the president had to say as he left capitol hill on friday afternoon. doesn't matter whether it's a 6 minute day or 6 week, we're going to get it done because members of the health did not vote on a full infrastructure bill. the one that's already been passed by the u. s. senate . they instead spent friday evening voting on a short term 30 day funding package to take care of as, until transportation industry needs. that means they're going to have to come back and deal with that matter in a months time. but in the mean time, members of the house of representatives are going back to their districts across the country for the next 2 weeks. if negotiations turn out any sort of wheel,

compromise that members of the entire party are willing to support. they could be called back to washington, but as with everything here, don't hold your breath. polls are open in canton 1st legislative elections, voters on choosing 30 of the 45 members. sure. a council. the body dates back to 1972, but until now was fully appointed by kat. how's him in a council? can propose laws approved budgets and recall ministers, or the emir will retain vito power for you and has told ethiopians? prime minister, it doesn't accept the countries decision to expel 7 of its senior personnel. ethiopia says the officials are being told to leave because they're metal than internal affairs of the country. residents in a small colombian town, san influx of mostly haitian migrants is pushing them out of housing. the migrants are trying to catch boats on their way north of the u. s, but far fewer people a day can lead and arrive. those were the headlines and he's continues here on al

jazeera of the witness station. thanks for watching them. ah ah ah . and my job is to go around the world and investigate different housing issues and to the see how are people faring with respect to the right to housing. but maybe

you could tell me a bit about how you came to meeting to have a ran strike. for me personally, i have a most problem. i have the top roach problem. i've got things that need to be repaired in the building. they with all services, they run you around in circles, they frustrate you, you get that up. you just want to leave. but we're, we're going to go. but friends, situation all over toronto's, the same way. there is, it is addiction by another name. and have you had any response from that cap yet? i guess it's rather harassing the bill. birkhead aside on her, she had a side on her balcony about the red stripe and they threatened her victor. i'm giving you this notice because i want to end your tendency. i want you to move out of your rental unit by such and such date reason. i believe that you or someone living with you has committed an illegal act and 6, a series critic, ality. yeah, on my horror, legal action, guns and drugs is, oh my god,

a she massacre with arden arms category there. yeah. so this was based on the banner. yeah. you know, we're not that melting room or anything just as may 1st rent strike. they on 19 bill is in the area and that's their plan for all the buildings is to give people like us. so the neighborhoods getting gentrified up, you know, familiar with liberty village. it's moving, it's come right up to king and duffer and this is, it's only one direction into our neighbor and we are in the way. ah ah

ah, no, i only go with that or go to that church. did you go directly to the chart in the greater toronto area, for example, in the last 30 years, housing prices have increased by 425 percent. whereas in a similar 30 year period, average family income has only grown by a 133 percent. so something else is in play and clearly it's not the economic fundamentals as you can see from the above graph. so are you going to send this or out or what 9? i would need to check the numbers 1st, but it's pretty. i mean that it's pretty grim.

ah, i think we are at an incredibly urgent moment. the extent to which where c urban ization collide with stagnant wages and a lack of affordability is unprecedented. so you have like poor people really struggling now like like never before. but then you also have the middle class unable to afford to live in cities and provide the services that are necessary for city. i don't want to over use the word crisis, but it suggests a crisis. so then we start asking, wait a 2nd, who's going to live in cities? who are cities for? ah,

it's not tom rocket science enough. what do we think people need to have a dignified life? and it's clear that decent housing affordable housing has one of those things and it's supported by international long. mm hm. kennedy heights. family is just an hours away from learning whether or not they can stay in their home or be forced out on the strings. problem housing is gobbling up more and shrinking paychecks. people and 59 out of 102 countries worldwide would need to see their yearly income for at least 10 years in order to buy a house in their country. there are 2 histories we might say that intersect to day in that space that we call the city

and one of them is familiar aisha, which is so what we have for which we have used the term gentrification. when i hear people today saying it's gentrification, one reaction and ironic reaction is if only it's much deeper, it's in fact it's much more foundational. oh, a i guess a fill in even though. so then either way i see of apple. i then you the now i don't i were in the home of an older woman breaker. a is being pressured to abandon her home because it's in the midst of the big new development here. there was a hospital, it's been demolished and it was demolished to make way for condominiums,

luxury condominiums, and they don't even own this land. i've heard that there are many units standing vacant already, luxury condos, and last because no one in both parties so can afford to buy and purchase any of these units. so these, the developments are clearly not for the people about how to use them. mm hm. oh, you know what you did in the but me so it was you don't nominate your mind on a saturday. you don't have anybody then all you will a seed window. i don't have a photo. i don't, i don't know, but it well this is what i see happening around the world. buying up of land, the displacement of the poorest people,

and the putting up a luxury in it or not actually for the people who live in the community. i own it based a contact phone no be in talking to rectify you. does mean yes, i do a demo in a good a silly most into my nightmare. we've had no heat all through. april, no hot water all through april. there's water leaking underneath the st. new owners and taken over, we haven't met some, we haven't seen them. we don't know anything of it couldn't be frosty the snowman. for all i know they're trying everything do with i mean that you what i'm, what you as i mean actually been daniel,

this is where i grew up. and i, you know, i'll be hell bent and balance. i'm going to be study here we go. all right, bye. have a great . thank you very much. yeah, it's very good. i was very proud to maybe not, you know, when you go somewhere boys in notting hill, i've heard about the feel more will have an awe thing i liked about this areas in the community. you know, your frames are all face or colors is one wedge.

this to me, to fanny is ashley family because even if we don't know each other, we know to her by faith. i was born just 5 minutes from here. and in the seventy's and eighty's and ninety's, i've seen whole area change of pop stars and people moving into the area because they light the vibe to my was really cool. the people seen the world, the film that come out from all around the world. they want to see where the blue doors they want to see this, that the bookshop, it became very, very trendy places to live. and then the new school ledger center that's going to attract the wealthy people to come down to the area. and then they stop buying up properties, they'll be to live there. but you know,

because this abstract us investment for them bed and put it in the bank 2 or 4 stops on the highlight tour of london cryptography properties. these 2 properties are, were, is perhaps $20000000.00 pounds each. i believe mister paid coming in the region of 40 or 50000000 pounds. ford. if you could get a whole one of these, it would be 30 or 40000000 pounds and nobody lives here and nothing is happening to this thing. so it's become a dead spot in london. there was, ah news agents, there were pubs, there were a couple of restaurants, but the community itself has evaporated to leave the press offline 94. if i saw my fly, i could not live in kenton sales say, i'll be forced out the area. and i'll have to ask for the move out blunt, and i can stand in the middle of the street with empty

car parking spaces all around me and no traffic coming. the space is now a bit of a dead. so we very little indication of who the owners are, and a lot of them are completely empty. so if you can't go can ask them where they are, they're actually just empty all the time. ah one way of putting it is, this is not at all healthy. ah, the buildings they function as, as you want those houses to be empty and unused because you can play with them in each these dark empty buildings and they are

making money. so when people think, oh, poor investor, something went wrong. hell, know, oh, my 1st reaction to learning about this phenomenon, a vacant dwellings. i was pretty outreach. i remain outraged in human rights framework. and through the u. n. system, it's very clear who was accountable states states are responsible, they have international human rights obligations, they sign treaties, and they make commitments to the international community that they will uphold international human rights which include the right. adequate housing. wow, i know that's

a real blow. a silly phone call to my door. and then i open the front door as a blanket oh, black smoke. disclosable. very common thinking of is a fire. ah, i'm with you right now is the beginning of the file. we've still, we need for 2 and a half hours. that's the beginning. that's ah. when i heard about it, i was in canada and watching it unfold through twitter and then i started getting

these details. social housing estate, marginalized community community, sat in a very rich, affluent burrow allegations of poor housing conditions from before the fire. ah, can i see an arm here come through this month? god grant my wife and then another. and that was my come to to kind of grab myself said, how about my dog, my dog? the officer said no, i'm sorry. we're gonna have to go. so just look to my dog. and i is this an amazing dogs mildly. my child is a t o b who could lewis hamilton the 2nd, but he chose his own name, given the options need, like louis so saw his and

then we will off into the darkness and then on going down and then on, treading on things free. oh, there must have the water pipes already in the stairwell, but then the realization know i figured people off on treading on own i'm bodies on treading on something. something this is that is in my way. i was actually quite happy when they put, clad in to make it pretty make it look nicest for the surrounding area. and somebody knew that the dirt on the cheek.

there were these elements that seem to be a bit of a global phenomenon where you have a kind of vulnerable community, most of the people in rental working, but they're working poor literally living side by side with incredibly wealthy people. and i credible amount of wealth the tension between the 2 and then watching this fire, it was like a physical representation of the displacement of a community. for me, that's the narrative of the world right now. one of the i heard one of the counselors while the counselor said, if you can't live in knowing he'll dasia newton being milledgeville, was all about to say several other did you get we'll go from. so he's not he would i live there, old a lives. i just lean on t like that me and this will limit make me sick. you want to, why priest, if my go just disregard them like their rubbish, like they that file it has,

but it's like, it was like, you know, this is the richest town in the bargain. how can i help him? oh, you have human rights obligations easy, and you can't let these investors and the financial system run amok on its own. i see why human rights. every single person has a bunch of rights. and then i have a question for you. and that is a, you are legal scholar on human rights due to that. okay. yes. are you have the instrumentality that is the law. exactly. because when i see is those with power board, can they deploy the law in ways that work for their stuff is happening. you know, ah, prices go up in a neighborhood that is fixed. that's when the everybody understands that part. and

then they should understand that at that point, another actor might come into the picture, a monster that nobody can see that nobody really understands whose language is in comprehend. who is this? what is happening here? ah, i don't believe that capitalism itself is generally problematic. is unbridled capitalism in an area that is a human right? problematic. yes. and i think that's what differentiates housing as a commodity from gold as the commodity gold is not a human right. housing is, ah,

will complement the minute wow. yes them to you. well, the previous landlord, i think we'll see a c, d i think they did put information up. let that let us know that the build, the complex is going to be sold. but this is before phil fit off. who came it? you know, who is fairfield? i don't know who they are from what i'm told to pay a bill is a subsidiary of um is a black stone. right. private equity firm? yes, exactly. they want to raise each, each carmine the rent up to like $900.00 each. that is by $900.00 by not a dollar. and are you going to be able to pay that? i don't know. i mean, i can definitely say next sheet is, is nowhere. and we have one to go. i don't have a clue. i don't know. right, and do you mind me asking, are you employed to say yes. and so what percentage of your income would this be 2590 percent 9190 assay gallery?

yes. 9090 percent. do you consider that affordable for you? and i think human rights law hasn't caught up and it worries me that i haven't quite yet found the language. how do we describe it in a way that will make sense resonate and really get at that issue? i'm still looking, i'm looking for that. i feel a little bit desperate about that. okay, so maybe i need to keep talking to the people in the financial field. because title find out. i notice when i came here with a label admitted the opening hours they show with our tenants that they are willing to to me from under this is 3 hours or week them on tuesdays. so every time an appointment is vacant, they thought they renovation, whereby they can increase the rents. wheeler of free,

50 percent. but these are increased rents have no connection at all to the actual costs. why this is very, very profitable for them. ah, finance is very different from the bank. we only banks that's fine. you know it's sell something we pay money for finance is totally different. i always say finer. so something it does not and that means that finance is basically an extract extract finance. it's like mining once it has extracted what it needs. it doesn't care what happens with the rest, hulu, the value of all real estate. that functions as an asset

is $217.00 trillion dollars. that's more than global g, d, p. of all the countries in the world of all the economies in the world. ah, they're highly kennel flashed extract. because they come in the shape of extraordinarily complex instruments that nobody who's not in that business can understand it. so complex that we delegate to the experts who are the experts, is the financial sector itself. on counting the cost on the la merkle legacy, the german economy, that is the envy of the world, but unprepared for the digital age. apple kicks on game, make an effort from an app store. is the phone,

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