&gt;&gt;Your perspective seems based on the idea that housing (shelter) is a basic need and should be provided for<p>There is a very unfortunate problem with this line of thinking. It takes a lot of effort&#x2F;money to build a house. You need to procure raw materials, pay for human labor and various other expenses, this is apart from acquiring land.<p>And the problem with this kind of &#x27;equality for all&#x27; argument towards housing is you are assuming, that a good quality home should either come at a cheap price or some one being ready to pay and make up for everybody else. Both of them are problematic, why should every single economic link in the chain related to building a house suffer? Or why are we expecting some people to pay taxes and have houses built for every one else?<p>You don&#x27;t have the right to anything unless the cost of achieving that is literally free or negligible.