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Safe Affordable Housing Is A Basic Human Right!

OPINION, by Randy J. Gibson

Shelter, housing is a basic of life. Everyone must have shelter. It is a basic to survival.

As far back as 1948 no less than the General Assembly of the United Nations recognized that shelter is a basic human right. The UN adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Article 17-2 of that declaration says:

“No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.”

Article 25-1 of that declaration says:

“Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”

It is not far-fetched to say that the issue of manufactured housing preservation, the preservation of safe affordable housing, is a human rights issue. We are not just crusading to preserve manufactured housing, we are actually crusading for human rights!

We who live in manufactured housing must recognize — if we have not already — that we are not just being done an unfairness, an injustice, our very human rights are being violated!

We must make it clear to those who would do away with manufactured housing communities that in doing so they are violating human rights, no less as declared by the UN.

We must impress upon our elected officials that preservation of manufactured housing is preservation of a basic human right. And we must impress upon them that their duty above all others as our elected officials is the preservation of human rights!

This is what AMHO is all about.