The United States ought to guarantee the right to housing (evidence) and bibliography

The United States ought to guarantee the right to housing (evidence) and bibliography

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Background

State of Homelessness: 2023 Edition

Affirmative — Libertarianism Answers — People aren’t Responsible for Homelessness

The obvious answer to homelessness. This article argues that government policies, not individual choice, is responsible for the rise in homelessness.

Homelessness is a housing problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns (book). This book argues that government policies, not individual choice, is responsible for the rise in homelessness.

Affirmative — General Kritik Answers

Housing and Homelessness: Breaking Down Silos for Systems Change. This article argues that providing housing is a good starting point for addressing homelessness. It’s has some good answers to general kritiks.

Affirmative — General

The First Step to Solving the Housing Crisis Might Be Simpler Than You Think. This article explains the extent of the housing crisis in the US

Priced Out: The State of Housing in America 

Conservatives love to blame America’s housing crisis on Democrats. An economist explains the true reason behind it and why it extends beyond political parties.

The Understated Housing Shortage in the US 

Occupying the Constitutional Right to Housing 

Affirmative — Housing Rights

Naming Housing as a Human Right Is a First Step to Solving the Housing Crisis

How adding a right to housing in the California constitution could alleviate the crisis

Right to Housing: Law, Concepts, Possibilities

The Human Right to Housing: Making the Case in US Advocacy

The true radicalism of the right to housing

Affirmative — Rural America

Tackling Rural America’s ‘Hidden’ Housing Crisis

Affirmative — Impacts

Housing as a social determinant of health and wellbeing: developing an empirically-informed realist theoretical framework

Negative — General

Do We need a right to housing?

Our Pluralist Housing Ethics and the Struggle for Affordability

Negative — Counterplans

Rental

Addressing the Affordable Housing Crisis Requires Expanding Rental Assistance and Adding Housing Units

The Rental Housing Crisis Is a Supply Problem That Needs Supply Solutions

Tiny Homes

Tiny Homes: A Big Solution to America’s Housing Insecurity