Now can no longer afford to rent or buy homes in their cities and why these cities appear to be emptying of people certainly at night. Yeah well we are in a new world i would say. There is a new housing landscape and whats happened really its since the Global Financial crisis the big financial actors have moved into Residential Real Estate and have really started to buy up properties especially properties that are affordable where everyday people are living in you know paying their rent theyre buying those up theyre renovating them modestly and then theyre jacking up their rents and people are being forced out there either being a dick did because they cant afford to pay the rent anymore or theyre self the victim because they know they wont be able to pay their rent anymore and once out of an affordable unit theres nowhere else to go there are no other affordable units and so theyre being pushed out of their communities now with one private Equity Company and i know you appeared to believe that private Equity Companies and hedge funds a big beneficiaries from the 2008 financial crash how has that related to the house as in crisis itself you have blacks own a representative Jonathan Gray himself saying that they need it a crisis that really you know affected so many families and households across the u. S. And the world in order for them to benefit and profit so if this is a story about using human misery really to accumulate wealth what happened was after the crisis in 08 basically blackstone moved in after a few years after developing the Necessary Technology moved in and bought up what was at that time cheap debt so foreclosed mortgages you know there were thousands and thousands across the u. S. And in parts of europe and they were able to purchase those mortgages at a reduced cost they then went in and turned those homes into rental accommodation renting back to that to former. Her owner is basically at high rental relatively high rental rates and so they made a very good return on that investment and so thats basically how blackstone and other Asset Management firms benefited from this horrible crisis that ruined many peoples lives since then theyve moved on and their Business Model has been a little bit different where now theyre going after existing Housing Stock thats affordable social housing buying up social housing in spain for example with a view to increasing those rents and and slowing profits back to their investors is the the c. E. O. Of Blackstone Stephen schwarzman disputes all these claims that youre making the defacto the claims of the United Nations is it really the business of the United Nations to talk about firms that see themselves as Entrepreneurial Companies that give jobs and actually pay salaries to pay rent. 1st of all i dont think blackstone disagrees about the buy it fix it sell it model that they developed i mean theyre very proud of that model that they profit from human misery now that thats true i think thats where we part part ways it is my role as u. N. Rapporteur to monitor whether people are enjoying the right adequate housing across the world and whether governments are meeting their obligations and whether private actors are meeting their obligations under International Human rights laws and principles and so it is it is my job to do this and to figure out whos responsible i while i do point the finger at blackstone lets be clear i also point my finger at governments and states around the world who have not turned a blind blind eye to this as some would suggest but who in fact have enabled this to happen theyve set up Regulatory Frameworks and tax laws that are very beneficial to the to what we call the financialization of housing or the you know this Business Model that blackstone has come up with and we know that players like blackstone have a lot of political weight so theyre working in concert with government i mean youll recall that when President Trump was 1st elected he appointed a Economic Advisory committee and the chair of that he can Economic Advisory committee which is now disbanded was mr schwarzman the c. E. O. Of blackstone so you see how comfortable government is with these big financial actors and and so theres a complicity there and i am pointing my finger at both because no one is then protecting tenants who are being forced out of their homes and communities and forced into homelessness i mean hes in the news here on Mainstream Media including the British Government and the b. B. C. Because of his generosity one of the biggest donations to Oxford University. And its history since there and they saw its 500 years or so why do you think of the appears to be this mismatch between what you are saying about private hedge funds and what the media often talk about is the great philanthropist of ata housing is a kind of private thing and people dont always talk about their housing circumstances with each other and people dont always know who their landlord is especially in this day and age so its kind of an untold story this sort of dirt the dirty money angle of private equity firms investing in Residential Real Estate so you know in that way it didnt surprise me i suppose that the coverage about this huge granting donation to Oxford University wasnt paying any heed or attention to the fact that the money that was being granted came off the backs of low income people off the backs of renters around the world thats a story that i think needs to be told and i actually am surprised Oxford University didnt do their Due Diligence and i understand that they actually have a social impact fund and i would have liked to have seen them for example say to mr schwartz when yes please give us your money were very happy to accept it and were going to put it instead of using it for research into the ethics of Artificial Intelligence were going to put it into our social impact fund that might have been of a way to cleanse that money and ill just say ill just add this its pretty ironic that that blackstone should give money for research into the ethics of Artificial Intelligence a big aspect of what blackstone has been able to do buying up thousands of Properties Like that lickety split you know in 30 seconds that it seems they can by you know 40000 properties they were able to do that through the development of new technologies so its pretty ironic to be looking at Artificial Intelligence and its ethics and supporting that research and not actually looking within your own house. To look at the ethics of what youre doing with big data and when with new technologies and its really ok the un special rapporteur can ask these questions because of people might be surprised you think looks of us it should consider giving giving the money back then since they have said it is for the Artificial Intelligence program yeah i mean i think Oxford University should be having a conversation among you know amongst themselves about the origins of this money and what this means for after a high reputed institution like oxygen in Risk University to accept money that has come off of the backs of low income renters that has that has money that has actually come from the creation of homelessness and affordability in cities around the world especially in the most major cities in the world london why do you maintain that in a sense greenfield tower in kensington and chelsea is a kind of narrative of the entire world it is a narrative of the entire world. The grantor 1st of all i will say the grand tragedy is something that has deeply affected me an affected my work and i visited i visited there a year after the fire but i have been tracking it you know it from the minute it happened until today. It is symbolic the residents of grenfell knew that the cladding was problematic and they had tried to express that to the local council they have no had no and have no political voice and this is the issue of our age where the schwarz mens of the world and the black stones of the world have political voice the b. B. C. The picture that they showed when when mr schwarzman gave the grant talks for it had him sitting beside donald trump that shows his political voice you dont. Have the same political voice when youre living in poverty are low income in social housing right and so the fact that the there is not an understanding that people who are low income or homeless actually are experts in their own lives is hugely problematic and i think that our housing policies have been tailored in a way and developed in a way that doesnt recognize the the expertise that individuals have in their own lives in their own housing and thats whats unique about human rights approach a human right to protect the called human rights for a reason they put humans at the center of Human DignityHuman Expertise the idea that people should be participants in their own lives in their own realities measure up to thank you thank you for the brick why did such a job its home office free a survivor of sex trafficking only just sent it back to the same brothel where she had been forced into prostitution and why is the United States still threatening to kill the artist kenneth reams painter of love life hope violence and execution all the ball coming up about to going underground. With 10 minutes to spare trump pulled back from attacking iran reception of this new split down the middle or depending on how you view the president what is not talked about is why the u. S. Feels compelled to go to war washingtons obsession with iran is hardly over. Description sound up to tell using even for the owners so how to choose the path Food Industry is telling us what to feed our pets is really more based on what they want to sell us and whats. This is really good for the pet turns out food may not be as healthy as people believe we have animals that have you know diabetes in arthritis they have auto immune disorders the cat allergies we are actually creating these problems and its a huge heavy demick of problems all of them i believe can be linked to very simple problem of diet and some dog owners so heartbreaking stories about their pets last treats corporations are not very interested in proving or disproving the value of their food because theyre already making it a 1000000000. 00 on it and theres no reason to do that research. You know world big partisan movie lot and conspiracy its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that Mainstream Media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. And shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. Welcome back while we have for being. One but as the u. N. Convenes in geneva today for more allegations of u. K. Human rights abuses at the and now it is allowed to do their work here in britain under the lib dems conservative coalition the un report or in violence against women claimed she was denied access to even investigated notorious outsource Detention Center 60 miles north of london called yuls would that was what outgoing Prime Minister dres m a was home secretary and as she prepares to leave office she has been. Offending a legacy on the socalled issue of modern slavery joining me now from the biggest legal aid for them in the country specializing in what mary calls burning injustices is surely never tell surely welcome to going underground so one of tourism is burning injustices and she talked about them as she resigned famously not particularly remember Boris Johnson the contender to be the next Prime Minister modern slavery that was the burning injustice she wanted to achieve something on how well as you dont she hasnt done much at all a lot more needs to be done and im seeing cases day in day out where they have got clients victims of trafficking who have been subjected to just horrendous Decision Making by the home of cases on looked out on a case by case basis and it is just a shit disregard and incompetence that im seeing on every single case case by case basis because i was actually said when considering accommodation needs all requests are considered on the case by case basis reflecting each individual circumstances thats what such a job with another contender for to be the experience and thats what. They thats absolutely not true this particular case that i was dealing with i had made numerous requests even before the decision was made is this this case where i was referred the case through at that party which is very common my client was a victim of trafficking from china she arrived in the u. K. A few years prior to being referred to myself she did it initially disclosed that she was a victim of trafficking which is very common so theyll they might not disclose fully that they have been sexually exploited for this particular client had been sexually exploited on arrival to the u. K. Promised a certain lifestyle. And there are troops jealous of dragons which which happens all the time they arrive in the u. K. With the help of age and and then theyre held in brothels sexually exploited its not always possible but more often than not youll see some sort of Sexual Exploitation and if they manage to escape the lender can restaurants math parlez. Yarls wood which is internationally famous as a detention show and drug. Before and then given an indefinite she gets indefinite detention is that i mean detention is always indefinite its not like a criminal sentence where someone knows how long theyre going to be in prison and thats what makes detention such a horrible place to be for these people who come to the u. K. For a better life and then theyre held in detention not knowing when theyre ever going to get out it was very difficult to take instructions from have because theres such a mistrust of authorities finally she told us we inform the Competent Authority in the home of fests day to day that their. Guidance says that they should make a decision within 5 days it took them 11 days to make a decision despite me continuously chasing she was not fit fit for detention had high Blood Pressure it was clearly a well from the medical records ive seen. They finally make a positive decision and as soon as a positive decision is made that a client is a potential victim of trafficking there is no reason for them to still remain in detention yet she remained in detention for her for the 5 days. On the 5th day shes released and i get a phone call from her saying ive been released im thinking fantastic only to find out shes being released to go back to the same address where she was picked up and where the home office were completely aware that it was a running battle which i think with the home office who are these people youre talking about because really they have to be trained in these particularly sensitive subjects and in areas psychology all the different skills you may need they are not trying to their decisions that i see they see thats the problem theres such incompetence in the home of best recently i saw. An advertisement and it was going around on twitter where they were recruiting for the trafficking unit at minimum wage no experience required 6 month contracts i dont think 6 months is even enough to train somebody on how to deal with the trafficking case because theyre complex and different now someone is making a lot of money out of this arguably g 4 s. Were running yarls wood Detention Center and understand the latest. Thing they said 4000000000 pounds of taxpayers money went to them in different justice contracts who would know the detentions and weve recently done a free to now of information requests because we wanted to find out whether these women who are detained at yarls wood are getting fair medical treatment and we found out that g 4 s. Up contract to a Company Called dr p. A. After doing some searches on companies how i feel where lies that doctor p. S. A. Is actually own and buy to mail g. P. s that do the reports in the olds would we run into the investigations into that subcontracting is a big problem brazil reaver the Legal Services in trying to figure out what exactly is happening in the back to say yes because this information required were not going to get. Because we dont know where were meant to be going and i guess the problem is the responsibility just goes further down the line here is actually responsible for the wrong doing and it should be added of course of the subcontracting or idea was in labor and conservative governments now we have this other scandal brookhouse and youve got weak airport thats also g 4 s. High court has just as many as real compulsory witness attendance from former employees and their offices saying theyre considering this ruling very carefully because they they cant hands out say weve messed up pay out there th