The people who don’t view housing as a human right are those who believe they will always have housing.
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@mike805 @gimulnautti @broadwaybabyto IMHO that is a sticking plaster, a palliative solution that does not address the root causes.
We need political solutions that provide a basic level of income together with rent controls and social housing plus universal healthcare.
Including affordable housing units that help people with disabilities live comfortably be they wheelchair accessible, suitable for blind people or peaceful enough for those suffering from mental health issues. And so on.
@mike805 @gimulnautti @broadwaybabyto I live in a relatively egalitarian society with social security some social housing, supported living for people who need help looking after themselves and universal healthcare.
But even here there are people who are not caught by the safety net.
When you lose your home and can find nowhere else to be then a bunch of other problems start appearing that make it harder to get your life on the right track again.
Everyone needs a safe place called home.
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The people who don’t view housing as a human right are those who believe they will always have housing.
They can’t fathom becoming disabled, losing their savings or their support network.
They can’t comprehend having everything ripped away from them.
They think they’re the exception.
They’re not.
People don’t plan for homelessness or disability.
It just takes one accident, illness or stroke of bad luck.
We all need and deserve a safety net.
@broadwaybabyto Very true. I’m ok and pretty secure now but I was homeless twice (in the UK and Ireland. The system is surprisingly brittle.
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The people who don’t view housing as a human right are those who believe they will always have housing.
They can’t fathom becoming disabled, losing their savings or their support network.
They can’t comprehend having everything ripped away from them.
They think they’re the exception.
They’re not.
People don’t plan for homelessness or disability.
It just takes one accident, illness or stroke of bad luck.
We all need and deserve a safety net.
@broadwaybabyto 100%
My son is permanently disabled (since birth) and we've given up trying to find him independent housing because it's a constant whack-a-mole, crab scrabble, roulette spin. People do not understand how bad it is (US based).
We're both going to be effed if disability hits me earlier in life.
And no amount of planning is going to help because my income isn't high enough to build reserves (single mom), and there's no family or inheritance to fall back on.
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@broadwaybabyto move to Europe
@sr_antwerp @broadwaybabyto I’m too poor from living in the US to move to Europe.
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The people who don’t view housing as a human right are those who believe they will always have housing.
They can’t fathom becoming disabled, losing their savings or their support network.
They can’t comprehend having everything ripped away from them.
They think they’re the exception.
They’re not.
People don’t plan for homelessness or disability.
It just takes one accident, illness or stroke of bad luck.
We all need and deserve a safety net.
@broadwaybabyto You'd think people would have learned something from the financial crisis when so many people lost their homes.
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@broadwaybabyto This gets pretty dark when you go into reasons why they believe they will always have housing.
I think you’re not taking into account several key pieces of brain research from the 2010’s.
Many of them actually believe some people shouldn’t have housing, and they deserve that.
People with brains that see the world through dominance/oppression group relationships, do not feel out-groups as fully human. Their empathy is selective.
This argument doesn’t work on them.
@gimulnautti @broadwaybabyto exactly that is the problem!
They are sociopathic af.
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The people who don’t view housing as a human right are those who believe they will always have housing.
They can’t fathom becoming disabled, losing their savings or their support network.
They can’t comprehend having everything ripped away from them.
They think they’re the exception.
They’re not.
People don’t plan for homelessness or disability.
It just takes one accident, illness or stroke of bad luck.
We all need and deserve a safety net.
@broadwaybabyto Well, you have to specify how would you make that right “real” who would put the economic resources to make that happen. The land, the materials, the tools, the skills, the work, the time, the money, someone would have to give it. That would be voluntary or enforced?
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The people who don’t view housing as a human right are those who believe they will always have housing.
They can’t fathom becoming disabled, losing their savings or their support network.
They can’t comprehend having everything ripped away from them.
They think they’re the exception.
They’re not.
People don’t plan for homelessness or disability.
It just takes one accident, illness or stroke of bad luck.
We all need and deserve a safety net.
@broadwaybabyto
A sizable slice of those are people who believe in the "Prosperity Doctrine" or Right-wing Christianity, or the people like Oprah who believe in "Attraction Theory" and that mere thoughts and positive energy shape reality.So, they think that as "good people" who give out positive thoughts, they will never be without a home. They also tend to believe the same foolishness about things like cancer, and are astounded when they get a diagnosis and face surgery, chemo, or death
