France to create 'legal right' to housing

AFP ^ | January 3, 2007

[JustaDumbBlonde]

According to many Katrina refugees and a couple federal judges, certain folks in the US have a constitutional right to free housing and certain other folks have a constitutional obligation to pay for it.

France is just trying to keep up with us.

[GOP_1900AD]

I have a legal right to screw up, lose everything, become and drunk or drug addict living on the street, and then, to demand housing. Hmmmm ......

[SF Republican]

Is there a major city in the USA that does not have public housing? I grew up in Dallas, and we had it there, we have it here in San Francisco, I believe Chicago has public housing.

[GOP_1900AD]

I won't ask what part of town you were in ... LOL!

[linear]

As I read the article, this rises beyond public housing, in that the state is required to provide it ad infinitem rather than as available.

[dfwgator]

Au revoir, France. Been nice knowing ya.

[Stoat]

"Monsieur, I have -- how you say -- crapped all over my home. It is ... unsanitary. Please to give me a new house toute suite. I know my rights, Monsieur. I am sure you do not want me to overturn cars in your scenic little streets, eh?"

Americans enjoy space travel, we feed and protect the rest of the world, and in our spare time we like to ponder ways to become even more productive.  The French enjoy participating in national strikes and cataclysmic street riots.

I suppose this is the 'enlightened' French perspective that the Left is continually lecturing us about.

[Mark was here]

If the government creates the right the government can take it away. Rights exist independent of the government, and only exist as ideals in our head. That is we choose to merely respect the rights of others.

Sounds to me more like France wants to subsidize the privilege of housing.

[Stoat]

I won't ask what part of town you were in ... LOL!

In and around the Champs Elysées as well as some outlying neighborhoods.  I didn't stay long because the place reminded me of a giant, 17th century sewer more than a city. 

[GOP_1900AD]

If you walk down that street on a Saturday night, you will think you are in Tunisia or Syria.

[Stoat]

France's estimated 100,000 homeless

 

France has homeless people?

Must be a mistake. I thought France was a socialist utopia that the United States must emulate.

The Left would be delighted if we were to be weak, effeminate and useless like France, because then they could force us into Socialism and from there, Sharia.

The Soviet template is their favorite, and they continually attempt to reprise it.

France's estimated 100,000 homeless

 

France has homeless people?

Must be a mistake. I thought France was a socialist utopia that the United States must emulate.

The Left would be delighted if we were to be weak, effeminate and useless like France, because then they could force us into Socialism and from there, Sharia.

The Soviet template is their favorite, and they continually attempt to reprise it.

[Stoat]

If you walk down that street on a Saturday night, you will think you are in Tunisia or Syria.

Agreed.  The ear-splitting noise of the feral punks with mopeds -sans-mufflers is another of the countless reasons to instantly drop to your knees and kiss the ground when you return to America.

[Stoat]

But a spokesman for Segolene Royal, the Socialist presidential frontrunner, warned the government against making "great announcements", saying what was needed was a massive commitment to build more public housing.

Yeah, that'll draw just the right kind of immigrants now, won't it? Why don't you just establish a mandatory "adopt a bum" program that applies to all native French households?
 

It seems that's precisely what this new legislation will accomplish, but instead of hosting the bums in your own home, your tax money will build them a home of their own.

But a spokesman for Segolene Royal, the Socialist presidential frontrunner, warned the government against making "great announcements", saying what was needed was a massive commitment to build more public housing.

Yeah, that'll draw just the right kind of immigrants now, won't it? Why don't you just establish a mandatory "adopt a bum" program that applies to all native French households?
 

[untenured]

The law, if passed, would make France the second European country to guarantee the right to housing, after Scotland which adopted similar measures with its 2003 Homeless Act.

Does anyone know what has happened to homelessness in Scotland since the wand was waved to create this "right"?

[Stoat]

From that point onwards, "every person or family housed in unworthy or unsanitary conditions" will able to take legal action to have their rights enforced, he said.

I presume that means is that if I move to France, they'll send over someone in a maid's outfit to clean my flat so I don't have to, right?

That would be the next 'logical' step.  Forcing an unemployed Islamofascist to clean his own house would be terribly demeaning and disrespectful, after all.

From that point onwards, "every person or family housed in unworthy or unsanitary conditions" will able to take legal action to have their rights enforced, he said.

I presume that means is that if I move to France, they'll send over someone in a maid's outfit to clean my flat so I don't have to, right?

[Stoat]

The law, if passed, would make France the second European country to guarantee the right to housing, after Scotland which adopted similar measures with its 2003 Homeless Act.

Does anyone know what has happened to homelessness in Scotland since the wand was waved to create this "right"?

A quick and superficial web search didn't produce an immediate and direct answer to your question, but you might find this article from The Scotsman amusing, and most of the reader comments to it even more so.  It seems that many are breathtakingly naive to basic principles of economics and have joyously wrapped their arms around the promise of a Socialist Utopia.  Don't look toward any massive improvement in Scotland's economy anytime soon.

Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Cost fears as Eastern European immigrants get homes on arrival

The law, if passed, would make France the second European country to guarantee the right to housing, after Scotland which adopted similar measures with its 2003 Homeless Act.

Does anyone know what has happened to homelessness in Scotland since the wand was waved to create this "right"?

[TigersEye]

I'm sure the right to food is not far behind. If I had the right to housing, education, healthcare, and food, with no responsibility for getting any of it, what incentive would I ever have to work? Ever?

Just what I was thinking. All they need is the right to food to go with the housing and they can stop all that messy and tiring protesting for guaranteed jobs, shorter work weeks, longer vacations and all of that. Then they can spend their time fighting for the inalienable right to cigarettes and wine.

[Rakkasan1]

no legal right to air conditioning ,though? expect lots of dead old folks in their free crappy apartments.

[Stoat]

no legal right to air conditioning ,though? expect lots of dead old folks in their free crappy apartments.

I'm guessing that air conditioning would be part of the minimum construction standards insisted upon by the French government.

If the bums who occupy these free homes emulate the norms of French culture, there will be lots of 'dead old folks' as you say anyhow.  You may recall the scores of dead grandmas who turned up after their offspring returned home from vacations last summer as well as the year before.  It's seems that the prevailing fashion is to go off and enjoy yourself with the expectation that the State will look after your parents in their tiny, sweltering apartments.

[Chode]

throw out all the useless invaders and there will be plenty of room for all the useless frogs!!!

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