Nickleville, hoovervilles, Reaganvilles, Bushvilles, WBushvilles

Nickleville, hoovervilles, Reaganvilles, Bushvilles, WBushvilles

Neighboring Mexico, actually tries to approach the housing situation as thought it is of national, state and regional concern.  Millions of  smaller homes have been built to provide peoples with reasonably priced homes through bonds in recent decades.

"Despite obvious problems, self-help housing has addressed numerous important and cross-cutting social issues. These communities substantially increase the housing stock available to low-income urban residents. As sociologists Alan Gilbert and Peter Ward have observed, without self-help construction, the government either would have to expend many more resources on housing projects or raise wages to enable the poor to compete in the formal housing market. By forcing people to build their own homes, the government has been able to preserve funds to underwrite industrial development. Self-help housing also allows lower-income residents to become owners rather than renters. And as self-help communities mature and residents add to initial structures, renters (typically poorer, younger, and more recently arrived in the city than owners) have housing options other than vecindades ."http://countrystudies.us/mexico/56.htm

Should housing be made a constitutional right or a quasi-right in America and its states (and municipalities)? 

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