{"id":51454,"date":"2017-04-10T13:59:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T06:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/utopian-thinking-free-housing-should-be-a-universal-right-poppy-noor\/"},"modified":"2017-04-10T14:06:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T07:06:21","slug":"utopian-thinking-free-housing-should-be-a-universal-right-poppy-noor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/utopian-thinking-free-housing-should-be-a-universal-right-poppy-noor\/","title":{"rendered":"Utopian thinking: Free housing should be a universal right | Poppy Noor"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDefenders of a rampant free market may scream murder \u2013 but a society where state accommodation cost nothing would be a much fairer place to liveWhat makes a right a right? Universal secondary schooling, for example, was a controversial proposal, vociferously debated in its day. Prior to its introduction, children were expected to work \u2013 and opponents of the changes were insistent that altering this would be to bend the wills of fate: the market would no longer truly be free \u2013 and in any case, children were just responding to the laws of supply and demand. They wouldn\u2019t be working unless they wanted the money. Sound familiar?Just think for a moment what the state of play might be if Britain was a place with free state housing for all. Like a free education, it would be based on the idea that every child in Britain has a right to prosper, or even to just get by. People have the right to sleep at night, free from the fear or actuality of cold, abuse, or prostitution. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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