Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating homelessness

Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home... by thomasfl on Friday January 31, 2020 @07:36AM (#22201114)

Speculation in private housing, is also a human right. Private housing has become the biggest asset class in the western world.

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Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home... by gchamonlive on Friday January 31, 2020 @07:41AM (#22201139)

Private housing is cultural, whereas shelter is a necessity. Shelter is sometimes vital for surviving. I would be surprised to be proven that speculation in private housing is necessary for survival.

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Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home... by Nasrudith on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:38AM (#22201527)

A tongue isn't neccessary to survival and yet we would call someone who went out ripping people's tongues human rights violators among other things. Not being neccessary is not sufficient to for something to not be a human rights violation.

I wouldn't call speculation in itself a human right but it emerges from others like right to trade and ownership. Taxing unoccupied homes would be a way to address it perfectly respectful of human rights - fixed costs of infastructure upkeep need to be paid after all.

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Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home... by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA on Friday January 31, 2020 @02:48PM (#22204919)

What the

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Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home... by Hamuko on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:06AM (#22201312)

https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

Is private housing speculation Article 31?

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