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ah ah ah. and my job is to go around the world and investigate different housing issues and sort of see how are people ferrying 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. look for me personally. i know most problem i have a talk roach problem. i've got things that need to be repaired in the building. they withhold 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 that rem situation all over toronto's the same way. it is addiction by another name. and have you had any response from that cap yet? i guess it's rather arrested harassing bark, had a sign on her. she had a side on her balcony about the red stripe and they threatened to 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, griffin, ality. yeah. on my record legal action, guns and drugs and oh, my god, a shame asperger with argon arms category there. yeah. so this was based on the

banner you know, we're not back melting room or anything just as may 1st rent strike. they own 19 buildings in the area and that's their plan for all the buildings is to give people like us. so the neighborhoods getting gentrified a if you know, familiar with liberty village, it's moving, it's come right up to king endeavor and, and this is, it's only one direction into our neighbor and we're in the way 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. and i 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 it's not tom rocket science, sina. what do we think people need to have a dignified life. and it's clear that decent housing affordable housing is one of those things. and it's supported by international law. kennedy heights family is just hours away from morning whether or not they can stay in their home or be forced out on the streets. problem housing is gobbling up more 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 to 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 much more foundational. cool with just a fill in even though. so then the then like i said, just of what i see of apple. i then you to now i don't i mean that worries we're in the home of an older woman breaker. a is being pressured to abandon her home

because it's in the midst of. 9 these big new development here, there was a hospital, it's been demolished and it was demolished to make way for condominium 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 a. so if you did in the ramp, if you go for me, so it was you don't know what's going on, give us a call on a saturday. you don't have anybody then all you will a seed. well, i don't have a photo. i can,

i don't know, but thank you very much. yeah. i was very proud to live in notting hill when you go somewhere . i went to live on notting hill because i've heard about the film or whatever. ah, i like about this areas is the community, you know, your frames are all phase or colors. this one with even if you don't know each of our we know to the by face was born just 5 minutes from here in the seventy's and eighty's and ninety's. i was seen,

whole area change of popstars and people moving into the area because a light of the 5 to 5 is really cool. the people seen the will will film that come of all around the world. they want to see where the blue doors they want to see this, 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 by and talk a teeth that need to live there. but you know, because this fantastic investment for them better put in the bank to offer stop on the highlight. tour of london talk receive properties. these 2 properties. ah, where is perhaps $20000000.00 pounds each?

i believe mister chapter paid something in the region of 40 or $50000000.00 pounds for it. 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, use agents, there were pubs, there were a couple of restaurants, but the community itself has evaporated. so we, we puzzle flight 90 full. if i so my fly, i could not leave in kids and shall say, i'll be forced out the area and i'll have to actually 40 move out of london. ah, one way of putting it is,

this is not at all about housing ah, buildings. they function as, as you want those houses to be empty and unused because you can play with them in these dark empty buildings and they are making money. so when people think, oh, poor investor, something went wrong. hell, know who my 1st reaction to learning about this phenomenon of vacant dwellings. i was pretty average. i remain outraged. back in a human right 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 leo, that's the real blow. i believe i can call to my pool and then i open the front door as a blanket. oh, black smoke disclosable. very common thinking. oh, as a fire ah. jumped up one with you

and that was the beginning of the trial. we've still, we need the 2 and a half hours. that's the beginning best. 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 to in a very rich, affluent burrow allegations of poor housing conditions from before the fire.

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 there are 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 uh huh. one of the counselors, while the counselor said, if you can't live in knowing he'll dasia neutral beam norville was, will about to say several other did you get work over to? he's not people that live there, old a lives. i just didn't want to you like that me and this will limit make me sick.

you want to why brief is my don't just disregard them like their rubbish. like they have that file. it is, but it's like, i was like, you know, this is the richest town in america. how can i help him? oh, you have the instrumentality that is the law. exactly. because when i see a sales with power board, can they deploy the law in ways that work for their stuff is happening. you know, you talk prices go up in a neighborhood that is fixed. that's when the everybody understands at 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 incomprehensible. who is this monster actually? what is happening here? i don't believe that capitalism itself is hugely problematic. is unbridled capitalism in an area that has a human right. problematic. yes. and i think that's what differentiates housing as a commodity from gold as a commodity goal does not a human right. housing is

ah, just half with wow, use of well, the previous landlords i think was c a c d. i think they did put information up little let us know that the bill due to conflicts is going to be sold. but this is before phil phil off, if who came it? do 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 it blackstone? 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 mileage a dollar. and are you going to be able to pay that? i don't know. i mean, i can definitely said she, it 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 yeah, and so what percentage of your income would this be 2590 percent? my my the asi glory. yes. 9090 percent. do you consider that affordable for you? let me 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. so maybe i need to keep talking to the people in the financial field. the 1st titled sign that i noticed when i came here with lisa labels,

miti the opening hours. they show with our tenants that they are willing to, to me from an early for 3 hours or week on, on tuesday for the deacon. he again, is the swedish arm of the black them company, so many fine thought they actually don't bother much here. but this is the typical example of the typo estates we are interested in. yes. 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,

very different from the bank. we only banks. that's why you know it's sell something. we pay money for the finance is totally different. i always say, find ourselves something, it does not. and that music fine is, 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. ah, who 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 extractions 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, a company like wax own or a the big financial enterprises were the big winners in the crisis. ah, there with rick winners in the housing market. ah, there was a big winners in the equity markets. it was as if the u. s. government, rather than helping the homeowners who are losing their homes,

actually sided with the banks, encouraged foreclosures to clean up, the books, gave the money to hedge funds them, and private equity firms who then bought the, the distressed assets to make money. so it is the way that the 2000 a crisis has played an important role, increasing wealth inequality in united states and, and other countries that have been afflicted by the crisis. it doesn't totally work as a statement yet. let me give you a snapshot of the new world of housing, and while i do so, i urge you to reflect on the images behind me. just like that. like, i can't remember how we did it with the homelessness report. but i remember when i was re reading my statement, i did have that if a pin dropped, we would have heard it in the room,

and that's what i need because they know half the time they're on their blackberries and not paying attention live there. i phones, i suppose now ill, i mean homelessness is a bit different to, you know, we're seeing images of people. and part of the problem is that when you're describing the stuff is supposed to be shocking, it's all cranes and buildings of glass and stuff. and so you're not moved to the same one. distinguished delegates. we are living in a new world, a world in which the housing sector has been transformed by global corporate financial actors and massive amounts of excess global capital. global residential real estate is now valued at a $163.00 trillion dollars. more than twice the world's total g. d. p. housing has been financial ised valued as a commodity rather than a human dwelling. what i am suggesting is

a significant change away from the commodification of housing in order to retrieve what housing means in terms of human dignity and security as a lived experience, as a human right. thank you and and, and, and, and what we're looking for the new buildings, the new estate, which is now called elephant paul, which replaces the hagar state where i used to live with like so many, all of them when you flatten is part of the development sold in hong kong and singapore, when that's overseas, they're not necessarily. so for people to live in the soldiers investments. wouldn't like to sort of romanticize what it was like before. right. but it was an

ordinary counsel despite all to ordinary families. and it was at this time a day, most of them being off to work and off to school, read to college. and so we're dealing with a very, it's a very particular period. the elites feel free to violate basic laws. and ah, and then they're surprised that there is bitterness among their the working classes that have lost an incredible gra, i mean, a lot of ground in our society. so it's a tough moment. and that following the money brings up a lot of very substantial reasons. as to why people are so angry, they don't know exactly. they don't have the knowledge, but they know that something is not right. my own work was concern about

asymmetries of information. the fact that some people know things that other people don't. and that gives some people the ability to take advantage of others. you can make more money, not by making a better product and lowering cost of production, which is a standard economic analysis. but by fishing for fools looking for people you can take advantage of they're not creating wealth, they're actually just taking wealth. if you're somebody like they had a blackstone, i've heard of talked about the big advantages of no regulation of deregulation. poor, she wants to be able to exploit the people who are living in his properties. arrived at the moment when there's a gaping home our system. mr

. far major international systems are, don't take the individual so seriously. left hand corner, yet my flag was then i say bought my flag. so i own that flag paid my mortgage . the problem is the price is round here and oh for in a ground floor. any any flat route here it is extortionate. yeah. and they wanted to give us like a little bit of money. i say of you go, but then i'll have to move out of london. so i decided to, to stay with friends. most of the people that lived in that town block are still not been homes 9 months later, 9 months later i'm now in

a hostile it the place that they could offer me could be anywhere in the country. and if i don't accept it, i become intentionally homeless anywhere in the country. well, yeah, i mean, it could be birmingham, it could be manchester anywhere. if you can treat people after a tragedy like that, the way they're treating them now will help as anyone have lou was picture myself like i'm 5 foot to i'm from this like nowhere place. and i'm trying to make a huge difference globally. i'm

trying to change an entire conversation that's embedded in the way people live all around the world. and then i look back at that girl from ottawa sitting in her basement office and it's like what am i thinking? i am i okay, so is this ridiculous? am i being ridiculous with imagine that you have a gentleman unit the a little but he should i like okay, you know open is empty but he should have thought she would even get hold of the vehicle. but adding that on to the independent

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ah, with it is a totally dysfunctional system in the late 19 seventy's and 1980 scared to build up. but i would call it an ideal which your relation that merge you solve all the problems. still the big winners still be big loose in the name of it, should the winnings be redistributed to the losers to the end? if everybody ends up where you start? it would take a high priest was built friedman, the big experiment was actually underpin oshea. they took their dictator to really implement these ideas. they thought that if we privatized to way

regulations, lower taxes, growth would go up. everybody would get more. somebody will get a lot more at the top, but putting aside envy, everybody would get a bigger piece of a pie. it ignored the many instances where marduk's do not was well it was so bitter. freeman re read them economic argument for why they should be unconcerned about morality. well, after a 3rd of a century of this experiment, no, no, that it's wrong that you can make money by destroying the world. and there's something wrong with it. and when i think how will

finance come down? it's bringing itself down. it has, you know, extracted so much value that it's stuck now and it's beginning to go on the other side of the curve. it is beginning to decline. you know, the amount of value, the capacity to invent more assets. we see sort of a stars the submit, so it will bring itself down. it will come, it will come back, potentially roaring that right now. it said they just stop if we're going to defend the cities as we know them. i can't do it alone. i decided to create a new movement called the shift so that we can come up with ideas of how to

protect our cities. so it's not an angle movement. it's not a movement of just cities. it's a movement hopefully of all stakeholders. you know that the don't getting to be launching the ship here in barcelona, where the effects and financial i station have taken hold. and where there is a mayor like out of collateral. like i'm, i've been looking at the blackstone, the largest private equity firm. they have more power than the state, you know. so how are you? yeah, you know, exactly. you're crying when we have some of these edge pounds trying to speculate on this. they want to buy that building. we buy it for you, but we do it because we have money. i missed a lot of me because i your friend, my part. yeah. that, that could be expensive. i'm interested to know how the investors are vulture,

funds, the hedge funds, air b and b are reacting to what you're doing in the m b. if we remain all next, you know, we'll, we ludo moments and we added a cbl. forget not so brought up and lay there like it is the them get one out of it will let and there's some, some groups acting like authentic my peers read. now. 2 2 ah, the big private equity it has taken me some time to ask the question, where are they getting their money from? ah, pension funds have a huge amount of money and they need to grow in order to make sure that the people who pay in to the pension fund have something to live on their working

lives. mm. mm. i mission to. so korea was planned well before i had this one piece of information, but some of the largest pension funds are right here at the national pension service is the 3rd largest pension fund in the world. it was one of the poorest countries. and now in the 11th largest economy in the world, in 50 years, that's pretty impressive. but of course, to make that happen in a 50 year period required a kind of brutal ism of math development. you just wonder how to go with the world is to put on you know how to go in, feel you know to you to pay you taught you to impale and deal you through tech. if we'll do is look, we'll close it,

it will one you'll yogato and do you, do you do packaging until 10 o 4. if you go good love on, it could be pretty much over, but we all don't lose mobile device which we did reach out to me all as well. and it with the parent. how cool go doing that. i'm a parent of o. national and city governments in south korea, i need to make some major shifts before they will be in full compliance with their human rights obligations. you know, human rights law is very specific about those types of projects,

forced eviction under international human rights is considered a growth, violation of human rights. people die enforced evictions and people's lives are basically ruined. so it's not to be taken lightly, hulu worry issues, you know, climate change, housing, they ought to be betted into the fiduciary frameworks. and a ranch farms. pension funds are representing people who are going to retire and you have to ask, how would they feel about this? would they feel comfortable with owning shares and

a company that is that immoral? i made a very nice to meet with them on the field. this is a corner for this out. i think it we have come together. we've cds, we've partners with local government association to build a partnership in the at the end be a freshman mission. we have a nice plus funds are going up and shut everybody knows window. you will chose it.

me a 2nd to load this. we're going to do. i showed up. you can williams what a show choker, yogi taylor, who is in with com. yeah, i've gotten so massage pretty humbly. the if you just don't know what you around this table do, can have a huge influence. it can guide other cities to prevent powerful financial actors and they are powerful from dismantling cities as we know them. we thought a lot about about whether it's right the right time for new york to sign onto the stick. and we decided it really is. i mean, these are issues we're all grappling with. we do feel like it's a great opportunity to be learning from each other, so we're very excited to be part of this. thank you very much. thank you.

well, i don't have any pictures of you. no idea. anyway, we do need to we should do another piece. now, jane deadman is back from the guardian. i wonder about taking another kick, a pick camp on financial aid station. i think with the one thing the one takeaway that they should know is that cities around the world are shifting and publicly doing so. and number one ah,

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