> "What makes people homeless is police tearing down illegal houses, not poverty"
This is a very good point, and i never see it mentioned - people will generally create their own housing out of whatever they have avaliable. These take the forms of refugee camps and slums, but they can and sometimes do evolve to something respectable over time - after all thats how housing began at the dawn of civilisation.
Now if the person's right to create his own shelter and solve his own problem has been taken away, then a substitute must be provided.
Every now and then we get people who make a mudhut or a tree house
This is a very good point, and i never see it mentioned - people will generally create their own housing out of whatever they have avaliable. These take the forms of refugee camps and slums, but they can and sometimes do evolve to something respectable over time - after all thats how housing began at the dawn of civilisation.
Now if the person's right to create his own shelter and solve his own problem has been taken away, then a substitute must be provided.
Every now and then we get people who make a mudhut or a tree house
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7826923/amp/Man-fights-live-inside-self-built-tree-house-council-bans-bushfire-risk.html