Leilani Farha

Leilani Farha is the Global Director of The Shift, a platform to promote the right to housing. Farha is the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, having over 20 years of experience both internationally and domestically on the implementation of the right to adequate housing for marginalised groups. Farha has assisted the development of global human rights standards on housing through the first UN Guidelines for the implementation of the right to housing and reports on homelessness, and the financialisation of housing.