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<blockquote>''Although currently neither politically nor fiscally feasible, the notion that access to inexpensive, presumably high-quality housing should be a government-guaranteed universal right would be a terrible idea even if it were popular and affordable. The proposition fails on three counts. It isn't necessary. It doesn't make economic sense. And, most compelling, were such a policy to be implemented, its putative beneficiaries would not thank us. Even if we should not promulgate ''a right to decent, affordable housing,''we want to assure that all Americans have access to decent, affordable housing. Happily, we can count on the private housing market (coupled with rising prosperity) to serve 95 percent of the country's households. Serving the remaining 5 percent requires concerted measures to scale back onerous housing regulations that prevent the private housing sector from meeting the needs of lower- income and untypical households.''</blockquote>
= <br/> Organizations =
these are organizations whose advocacy particularly centers on "Right to housing" concepts. A wide variety of housing and social justice groups refer to the concepts to some degree.
== National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty ==
see Tars [2018].
== Portland: Neighbors Welcome ==
formed in 2019.
Right to Housing Coalition (Ontario)
Occupy Our Homes movement
Take Back the Land movement
Home Defenders' League (HDL)
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= References =
*Alexander, Lisa T [2015]. "[https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/766 Occupying the Constitutional Right to Housing]." 94 Neb. L. Rev. 245 (2015).<br/> Available at: https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/766.<br/> <br/> ''"This Article's central thesis is that the conflict and contestation between [U.S. housing rights movements and private property advocates who seek to thwart these movements' efforts] helps forge new understandings of how local housing and property entitlements can be equitably allocated, consistent with the human right to housing and U.S. constitutional norms. While there is no formal federal, state, or constitutional right to housing in America, these movements' illegal occupations and local housing reforms concretize the human right to housing in local American laws, associate the human right to housing with well-accepted constitutional norms, and establish the contours of the human right to housing in the American legal consciousness.' These movements construct the human right to housing in American law by establishing through private and local laws a right to remain, a right to adequate and sustainable shelter, a right to housing in a location that preserves cultural heritage, a right to a self-determined community, and a right to equal housing opportunities for non-property owners, among other rights. By challenging local property rights, these movements also demonstrate how non-property owners, who lack adequate housing, also lack equal dignity, equal opportunity, equal citizenship, privacy, personal autonomy, and self-determination-all norms explicit in the U.S. constitutional order. ''<br/>
*Bratt, Rachel G., Michael E. Stone, and Chester Hartman, editors. ''A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda''. Temple University Press, 2006. [http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1301_reg.html Overview, contents, and Introduction]. [https://books.google.com/books?id=nTXmtaLK0OUC&pg=PA338#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books]. [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_E90AYG2sPDTExSX1JDUVZqU0U PDF]. [https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_E90AYG2sPDdEtDSndPOUVxZXM ePub].<br/>
*Carter, Dennis. "[https://rewire.news/article/2019/02/20/what-housing-as-a-human-right-bill-looks-like/ Here’s What a ‘Housing as a Human Right’ Bill Looks Like]." ''Rewire News, ''Feb 20, 2019, 5:23pm. [https://rewire.news/article/2019/02/20/what-housing-as-a-human-right-bill-looks-like/ https://rewire.news/article/2019/02/20/what-housing-as-a-human-right-bill-looks-like/]. <br/>
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*Salins, Peter D. "[https://www.innovations.harvard.edu/comment-chester-hartmans-case-right-housing-housing-right-wrong Comment on Chester Hartman’s 'The Case for a Right to Housing’: Housing Is a Right? Wrong!]" Housing Policy Debate, Volume 9, Issue 2 259, 1998.[https://www.innovations.harvard.edu/comment-chester-hartmans-case-right-housing-housing-right-wrong https://www.innovations.harvard.edu/comment-chester-hartmans-case-right-housing-housing-right-wrong].<br/>
*Stockard, James. "Opinion: Why affordable housing needs to be a right, not a privilege." Ideas.TED.com, May 19, 2017. [http://ideas.ted.com/opinion-why-affordable-housing-needs-to-be-a-right-not-a-privilege/ http://ideas.ted.com/opinion-why-affordable-housing-needs-to-be-a-right-not-a-privilege/].<br/>
*Tars, Eric [2018]. (Senior Attorney, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty). "Housing as a Human Right." [https://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/AG-2018/Ch01-S06_Housing-Human-Right_2018.pdf https://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/AG-2018/Ch01-S06_Housing-Human-Right_2018.pdf]. <br/>
*United Nations [http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/housing/ Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living], UN
**[http://www.internal-displacement.org/8025708F004BE3B1/(httpInfoFiles)/C90EE08CC6A733ABC12574C00049C81D/$file/G0810545.pdf Report to UN HRC, 2008. A/HRC/7/16]
**[http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/13session/A-HRC-13-20.pdf REport to UN HRC, 2009. A/HRC/13/20]
*United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). "[https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/HousingRightsen.pdf Housing Rights Legislation: Review of International and National Legal Instruments]." Nairobi, 2002. [https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/HousingRightsen.pdf https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/HousingRightsen.pdf].
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