Advocates argue for declaring housing a human right -- but mayors are hesitant
“What would it feel like if everybody were housed in your community,” Charlie Clark, mayor of the Canadian city of Saskatoon, asked those attending a panel on “Cities for Adequate Housing” held Thursday afternoon.
, an advocacy group working to end homelessness and evictions globally, told those attending the session. Counterintuitively, the greatest housing stress is coming in cities with the greatest economic success in recent years, hot spots like San Jose, Seattle, Austin and Denver. While rising prosperity can alleviate many conditions, like poor nutrition, it can exacerbate housing shortfalls as more people move in to pursue jobs.
The Shift’s solution — declare housing to be a public good, a basic human right that all of society should work together to provide.
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