Rent is going up more than $100 a month right now — with the average asking price a record $2,117

ram

Housing should be a human right, but now it’s not even a utility; it’s a luxury good for the wealthy that even the poor must find a way to afford.

@Rocket@lemmy.ca

Housing should be a human right

It is. The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of which Canada is party to, made it as such.

@bradmont@lemmy.ca

Unfortunately the UDHR is not enforceable…

@Rocket@lemmy.ca

It is by way of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, among others.

Pxtl

I wonder if this could be used to sue organizations that block housing construction?

“I want to build a 20-storey affordable housing project”

“The local councilman and neighborhood groups want it to be a 10-storey building”

“The Charter doesn’t give a shit what they want”