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What Would it Mean to Make Housing a Human Right?

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Supporters of Moms 4 Housing rally in front of the West Oakland house the group occupied for several months before being forcefully evicted in January. A community land trust has since agreed to purchase the house and allow the women move back in. (Molly Solomon/KQED)

Housing is not a human right in the United States. But more people are saying it should be.

That growing movement has roots here in the Bay Area, where it’s been nearly a year since the mothers behind Moms 4 Housing first occupied a house on Magnolia Street in West Oakland. Earlier this month, the moms announced that the home would soon be used for transitional housing.

In the latest episode of the KQED podcast Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America, hosts Molly Solomon and Erin Baldassari dive deep into what it would actually mean to make housing a right.

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