Jordan Flaherty once said “Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.”
It is because I agree with John Flaherty in the position regarding housing, that I feel compelled to affirm today’s resolution. Resolved: The United States ought to guarantee the right to housing.
For clarification of today’s round, I offer the following definitions:
Word: Guarantee
Definition: an assurance for the fulfillment of a condition (Merriam-Webster)
Word: Right to Housing
Definition: ensures access to a safe, secure, habitable, and affordable home with freedom from forced eviction. It is the government’s obligation to guarantee …show more content…
The Hierarchy of Needs, along with knowledge about basic survival, explain the importance of having a safe home. Furthermore, the right to housing upholds other human rights. According to Brittany Scott of Columbia Human Rights Law Review, “Human rights norms begin with the principle that the purpose of a housing system is to secure adequate housing for all people, not to secure investments. These notions are particularly relevant in the U.S. housing context, in which a surplus of housing exists alongside homelessness, lack of affordability, and reoccurring patterns of segregation”. Additionally, “The human right to adequate housing is part of the right to an adequate standard of living, first recognized in the 1948 Universal Declaration on Human Rights. The human right to adequate housing is the right of every woman, man, youth and child to gain and sustain a safe and secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity. It has expounded upon in human rights treaties including Article 11 of the International Convention on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights and also in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination” (Emily Ponder). “The United Nations (U.N.) recognizes that every person has a right to adequate housing, and this obliges governments to prevent and end homelessness” (Sheffield). Within the US governemnt, Presidnet Franklin D Roosevelt declared that housing is fundamentqal to human welfare. “The U.S. Housing Act of 1949 pledged to realize "as soon as feasible the goal of a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family, thus contributing to the development and redevelopment of communities and to the advancement of the growth, wealth and security of the nation." By assuring each the right to housing, we are upholding basic human
It is because I agree with John Flaherty in the position regarding housing, that I feel compelled to affirm today’s resolution. Resolved: The United States ought to guarantee the right to housing.
For clarification of today’s round, I offer the following definitions:
Word: Guarantee
Definition: an assurance for the fulfillment of a condition (Merriam-Webster)
Word: Right to Housing
Definition: ensures access to a safe, secure, habitable, and affordable home with freedom from forced eviction. It is the government’s obligation to guarantee …show more content…
The Hierarchy of Needs, along with knowledge about basic survival, explain the importance of having a safe home. Furthermore, the right to housing upholds other human rights. According to Brittany Scott of Columbia Human Rights Law Review, “Human rights norms begin with the principle that the purpose of a housing system is to secure adequate housing for all people, not to secure investments. These notions are particularly relevant in the U.S. housing context, in which a surplus of housing exists alongside homelessness, lack of affordability, and reoccurring patterns of segregation”. Additionally, “The human right to adequate housing is part of the right to an adequate standard of living, first recognized in the 1948 Universal Declaration on Human Rights. The human right to adequate housing is the right of every woman, man, youth and child to gain and sustain a safe and secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity. It has expounded upon in human rights treaties including Article 11 of the International Convention on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights and also in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination” (Emily Ponder). “The United Nations (U.N.) recognizes that every person has a right to adequate housing, and this obliges governments to prevent and end homelessness” (Sheffield). Within the US governemnt, Presidnet Franklin D Roosevelt declared that housing is fundamentqal to human welfare. “The U.S. Housing Act of 1949 pledged to realize "as soon as feasible the goal of a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family, thus contributing to the development and redevelopment of communities and to the advancement of the growth, wealth and security of the nation." By assuring each the right to housing, we are upholding basic human