EP.763: UN Rapporteur- Who’s Behind the Global Housing Crisis?

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the UN Rapporteur on Housing Leilani Farha on the causes of the global housing crisis, how big finance caused rocketing rents, the corporations behind real estate investment strategies that have caused the crisis and more. Next we speak to Shalini Patel, a public lawyer who represents victims of human trafficking and modern slavery on Theresa May’s efforts to tackle trafficking and modern slavery, alleged incompetence at the Home Office and incredibly low standards for the Home Office’s trafficking department. Finally we speak to Anne-Frederique Widmann, the director of ‘FREE MEN-the life and injustice of Kenneth Reams on Death Row’. She discusses the tragic real life story of Kenneth Reams.