"Right to security" thinking got us mass incarceration. Most progressive places are backing off of that one now. Perhaps 25 years ago.
Food is an excellent model for what I'd like to see around housing: extremely mature and sophisticated commodity market, government thumb on the scale of abundant and stable supply at low prices, subsidies for people whose incomes are genuinely below the cost of efficient production.
To the extent that food is a human right, it is incredibly important that we have GMOs, large-scale factory farms, global supply chain, etc. Food being a human right would make it all the worse to insist on only socially-optimal production: everything local, everything organic, everything vegan, community meetings to argue about who deserves to eat. But that's exactly what the "housing is a human right" crowd fights to preserve and entrench for housing.
Food is an excellent model for what I'd like to see around housing: extremely mature and sophisticated commodity market, government thumb on the scale of abundant and stable supply at low prices, subsidies for people whose incomes are genuinely below the cost of efficient production.
To the extent that food is a human right, it is incredibly important that we have GMOs, large-scale factory farms, global supply chain, etc. Food being a human right would make it all the worse to insist on only socially-optimal production: everything local, everything organic, everything vegan, community meetings to argue about who deserves to eat. But that's exactly what the "housing is a human right" crowd fights to preserve and entrench for housing.