Resolved: The United States ought to guarantee the right to housing
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- Lack of affordable housing leads to homelessness.
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Affordable HousingCurrent housing is too expensive.National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, 2015 https://www.nlchp.org/documents/Right_to_Housing_Report_Card_2015 Over half of all American renters pay more than 30% of their income for housing. For extremely low income (ELI) households, the percentage paying more than half of their income in rent jumps to 75%. This problem is caused in part by the lack of available, affordable housing for low-income renters. Average rents have increased for 23 straight quarters, and were 15.2% higher in 2014 than in 2009. Lack of affordable housing leads to homelessness.National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, 2015 https://www.nlchp.org/documents/Right_to_Housing_Report_Card_2015 Lack of affordable housing is a primary cause of homelessness, and the ongoing crisis has led to an increase in the numbers of homeless persons. While HUD’s point-in-time count of homeless persons living in shelters and public places has decreased over the past four years, this number is almost certainly a significant undercount of homelessness. It does not include people living doubled up with family or friends; this number increased by 9.4% to 7.4 million people in 2011, and remained stable during 2012. Moreover, close to 1.4 million school children were homeless during the 2013-2014 school year—and almost 2.5 million children overall were homeless in 2013. The school numbers represent an 8% increase since the previous year, and have almost doubled since the beginning of the economic crisis in 2007. Dehumanization is bad.Michelle Maiese 2003 http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/dehumanization/ Once certain groups are stigmatized as evil, morally inferior, and not fully human, the persecution of those groups becomes more psychologically acceptable. Restraints against aggression and violence begin to disappear. Not surprisingly, dehumanization increases the likelihood of violence and may cause a conflict to escalate out of control. Once a violence break over has occurred, it may seem even more acceptable for people to do things that they would have regarded as morally unthinkable before. Parties may come to believe that destruction of the other side is necessary, and pursue an overwhelming victory that will cause one's opponent to simply disappear. This sort of into-the-sea framing can cause lasting damage to relationships between the conflicting parties, making it more difficult to solve their underlying problems and leading to the loss of more innocent lives. Indeed, dehumanization often paves the way for human rights violations, war crimes, and genocide. For example, in WWII, the dehumanization of the Jews ultimately led to the destruction of millions of people.[9] Similar atrocities have occurred in Rwanda, Cambodia, and the former Yugoslavia. Download 95.74 Kb. Share with your friends:
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