Right to Housing Quotes

Felons are typically stripped of the very rights supposedly won in the civil rights movement, including the right to vote, the right to serve on juries, and the right to be free of legal discrimination in employment, housing, access to education, and public benefits. They're relegated to a permanent undercaste.

There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.

Human rights and fundamental freedoms may be limited to meet the just requirements of national security, public order, public health, public safety, or public morality…. realization of human rights must be considered in the regional and national context bearing in mind different political, economic, legal, social, cultural, historical and religious backgrounds

The way we need to view aid is as a fulfillment of rights, and Mexico, as other countries around the world, have agreed and signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the covenants of Human Rights and that includes the right to food, the right to water, the right to housing and the right to education.

if anyone was evicted it was the duty of his fellows to assemble in their thousands and reinstate him the next day

Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an American? I say yes.

People have a right to my food, a right to my housing, and a right to my good job for my decent pay.

Having a place to live is a fundamental right and the state must establish a framework that ensures that apartments are affordable.