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Day 1, Part 1 - Setting the Stage for the Advisory Group Visit
By: HR2Housing
Posted: Jul 26 09
Witnessed: 1410 veces
Regions: United States
Issues: Housing, Internally displaced persons, Natural disasters
Tags: Forced Eviction, housing, Katrina, New Orleans
Eric Tars, Human Rights Program Director at the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, on his way to New Orleans for the Advisory Group on Forced Evictions visit, provides additional background information on the origins of the mission and some of the housing rights violations that have occurred. Sunday, 7/26/09, 11am.
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