Is the human right to housing backed by local, state, national, or international law? If so, how is it being so flagrantly flouted? If a right is something you are actionably entitled to do or have, does the right to housing still exist absent the ability to wield it? Can rights endure without state power (or some other source of collective control) to enact and enforce them? Why does the 'richest' country on earth have “ over one hundred thousand people sleep in homeless shelters…and over three-quarters of a million people are homeless?” Related An excerpt from Samuel Stein's A Right to Housing?
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51