{"id":34682,"date":"2021-08-02T10:40:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T01:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/02\/new-zealand-commission-launches-inquiry-into-massive-human-rights-failure-on-housing"},"modified":"2021-08-02T10:40:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T01:40:31","slug":"new-zealand-commission-launches-inquiry-into-massive-human-rights-failure-on-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34682","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand commission launches inquiry into \u2018massive human rights failure\u2019 on housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crisis has been marked by escalating rents, high rates of homelessness and substandard conditions <\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s housing crisis has become a \u201cmassive human rights failure\u201d, the Human Rights Commission has said, as it launches a national inquiry into the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuccessive governments have failed New Zealanders,\u201d chief commissioner Paul Hunt said in a statement as he announced the inquiry. \u201cNew Zealand governments have signed up to a critically important human right: the right to a decent home. For generations, they have promised to create the conditions to enable everyone to live in a decent home, but this has not happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/02\/new-zealand-commission-launches-inquiry-into-massive-human-rights-failure-on-housing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crisis has been marked by escalating rents, high rates of homelessness and substandard conditions New Zealand\u2019s housing crisis has become a \u201cmassive human rights failure\u201d, the Human Rights Commission has said, as it launches a national inquiry into the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1068,1066,697,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-communities","category-coronavirus","category-housing","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34683,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34682\/revisions\/34683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}