Partners for Dignity & Rights: On June 3, 2025, several advocates working on housing, homeless/houseless and poverty issues in the United States met with civil society staff of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights and Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, to discuss possible negative impacts of the proposed federal budget cuts for the fiscal year 2026.

Our concerns were reinforced when several legal advocates were in Geneva earlier this month and met in person with the civil society staff and UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty, Olivier De Schutter, and expressed similar concerns.

We are grateful to the UN Office of the High Commissioner, mandate holders Balakrishnan Rajagopal and Olivier De Schutter, and staff for the attached letter to the US government.

As advocates and organisers, we have another tool in our toolbox as we organise to prevent cuts to programs that are meant as safety nets for homeless/houseless people, low-income and impoverished people in the United States.

View the letter: https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=30167.