Is decent housing a human right?

[Wainuiguy]

I suppose if you take out the homeless by choice, then the rest wished they had a home.
is it our responsibility to provide one? i dont think so.
there is a difference between shelter and a home.
i think its our responsibility to provide shelter until that home is found.

we already provide significant accommodation subsidiaries to renters on benefits, even to some that arent.
this has not helped the market. an external catalyst unbalances the value at the bottom end
this inflates the rents over time as the pool of renters better enabled to pay, increases.

the law of decreasing marginal returns states the the more available something is the cheaper it becomes.
the answer seems blatantly simple. build more houses.

we have made that process such quagmire that even a government backed plan with billions of dollars at its disposal only managed to build a few hundred. if an organisation as well funded as a government cant do it, how are construction companies and developers supposed to make it happen?  we are seeing construction companies going belly up during a housing shortage.  so much is time and money is being absorbed by regulation, permits, inspections, health and safety, tax and insurance there is little room for margin.  more is spent on peripheral shit with no tangible return than is spent on the materials to build. 

the entire process needs simplifying, speeding up and costing less. overhaul it. make the process more inclusive rather than exclusive as it is now. take it out of the hands of councils, its a national issue not a provincial one.
standardise it and legislate to capitalise the bottom end of the market. (interest free loans, first home subsidy etc). this has to be better than the indefinite, unending reliance on welfare to bandaid the problem.

That is a whole lot of common sense right there.