Human Rights (UDHR), which included adequate housing as human right. The UDHR was non-binding, but the right to adequate housing was codified in International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The United States signed the ICESCR in 1966, but it has not been ratified. In 2011, the United States made commitments to the U.N. Human Rights Council to “reduce homelessness,” “reinforce safeguards to protect the rights” of homeless people, and to work toward affordable housing for all people. In 2015, the United States provided support for a recommendation to the "Guarantee the right by all residents in the country to adequate housing, food, health and education, with the aim of decreasing poverty, which affects 48 millions of people in the country.” In October 2016, the United States signed onto the New Urban Agenda, which came out of the U.N. Habitat III conference. The New Urban Agenda called for signatories to "...commit to promote national, sub-national, and local housing policies that support the progressive realization of the right to adequate housing for all..." Affordable housing crisis Beginning in the early 1980s, the United States experienced large cutbacks on affordable and public housing programs, such as Section 8. Under the presidency of Ronald Reagan, funding for housing authorities was cut when they were considered to be performing poorly. These housing cuts are believed to have contributed to the negligence, crime, and mismanagement that became associated with public housing in cities such as Chicago. By the end of the decade, many public housing buildings faced serious safety and maintenance issues, such as mold, pipes that leaked raw sewage, broken elevators, and malfunctioning incinerators. These problems were documented by the National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing (1989), which eventually brought $6 billion from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to replace distressed buildings with mixed-income housing. By 2018, three quarters of polled Americans believed that housing was a human right. However, since 2008, the United States had seen a sharp rise in rental and housing costs, which has resulted in an affordable housing crisis. For example, in Los Angeles, the average rental price increased by 65% between 2010 and 2019. In San Francisco, rental prices rose 70% between 2010 and 2019, with the average apartment rental costing $3,680. In New York City, rental prices increased by 31% between 2010 and 2018, according to data collected by StreetEasy. Meanwhile, many