About

Housing is a Human Right (HHR), is an ongoing multi-platform portrait of the struggle for Home. Composed of oral narratives and photographs, along with testimonies and memories of Home – woven and remixed – this collection of viscerally honest, first-person narratives aims to illuminate the complex fabric of community.

The project creates a space for individuals and organizations to record stories, in your own words, of Home, community and ongoing efforts to obtain or maintain a place to call Home. Stories are recorded in sound in the tradition of oral history.  We present stories and photographs in public exhibitions & broadcasts via traditional and new media outlets.

Movement Building Media . . .

Housing is a Human Right is a collaborative effort born out of a perceived need to explore and articulate – through first person stories – the human right to HOME.  We have had the opportunity to talk and build with so many wonderful people.  For a window into our process and motivation please check out the following interviews:

INSIDE STORIES PODCAST 11: HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT

SOTRU Examines the Project “Housing is a Human Right”

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info@housingisahumanright.org          Call us toll free at (888) 955-6653

Housing is a Human Right accepts commissions to record stories and develop exhibitions.  Contact us today to find out more info@housingisahumanright.org

“Housing is not just a roof; it’s not just walls. It’s much more than that. Housing must have a community attached to it, and a territory. A territory where people can have access to the means of livelihood–to land, to water, to resources, to sources of income–and not only being sheltered somewhere.”

-Raquel Rolnick, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing

We need your help to continue to create a space for people to record stories of home, community and there effort to maintain or obtain a comfortable place to live. Consider donating today.

Housing is a Human Right is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of Housing is a Human Right may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Housing is a Human Right is supported, in part, by The Puffin Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Hip-Hop Theater Festival, EarSay, Inc., The Laundromat Project’s Create Change Artist Residency Program, and Lower Manhattan Culture Council Swing Space.

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