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-Affirmative Case |
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-I affirm. |
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-I value morality. |
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-My standard is mitigating structural violence. |
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-Material inequalities are based in moral exclusion, which is flawed because exclusion is not based on dessert but rather on arbitrarily perceived difference. |
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-Winter and Leighton 1 |
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-Winter, D. D., and Dana C. Leighton." Structural violence." Peace, conflict and violence: Peace psychology for the 21st century (2001): 99-101. |
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-Finally, to recognize |
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-building lasting peace. |
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-Morality mandates expression of all voices, which necessarily prohibits structural oppression. |
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-Iris Marion Young, Professor in Political Science at the University of Chicago since 2000, masters and doctorate in philosophy in 1974 from Pennsylvania State University. “Justice and the Politics of Difference”. Princeton University Press, 1990, Digital Copy. |
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-Group representation, third, |
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-tends to silence. |
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-C1: Homelessness |
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-Homelessness is caused by domestic violence and abuse- it is rarely the fault of the person. |
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-Crisis 14: |
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-About Homelessness. http://www.crisis.org.uk/pages/causes-consequences.html Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We are dedicated to ending homelessness by delivering life-changing services and campaigning for change. |
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-Crisis research looking |
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-housing is rationed. |
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-Homelessness is the worst possible impact: It increases chances of abuse, rape, and other health conditions. |
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-Watson 7: |
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-Stephanie Watson "How Homelessness Works" 9 November 2007. HowStuffWorks.com. http://money.howstuffworks.com/homeless.htm 29 March 2017. Stephanie Watson has a degree in mass communications from Boston University. She has written nearly two dozen books on a variety of subjects, including nutrition, genetics and the environment. Stephanie is also a regular contributor to several consumer health publications. |
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-And, homelessness improves the chances of sex trafficking. |
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-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-m-ryan/homeless-youth-sex-trafficking_b_3321193.html New Study Reveals Vulnerability of Homeless Youth to Trafficking Kevin Ryan is the President and CEO of Covenant House. |
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-or survival sex. |
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-Homelessness traps people in a cycle of marginalization and poverty, making it impossible for them to break out. |
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-Stéphanie has worked with international organisations, non-profits and charities in communications, research, fundraising and advocacy. She is currently an editor at the World Economic Forum in New York. We Shouldn’t Treat the Homeless as Criminals. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/25/we-shouldnt-treat-the-homeless-like-criminals |
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-Criminalization not only |
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-C2: International Law |
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-In the status quo, the US has decided to reluctantly affirm the right to housing. |
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-affirming the right. |
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-Not guaranteeing the right to housing violates international treaty obligations. |
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-Housing Rights Watch no date: |
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-http://www.housingrightswatch.org/page/un-housing-rights UN Housing Rights |
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-Institute for Energy and Environmental Research and the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy. Rule of Power or Rule of Law? An Assessment of U.S. Policies and Actions Regarding Security-Related Treaties. May 2002. http://www.ieer.org/reports/treaties/execsumm.pdf |
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-Impact: Mass killings and nuclear war not only impact the homeless but everybody else as well making it a huge impact in the round. Any decrease in the probability of this structural violence outweighs the Neg due to the magnitude of it. |
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-Homelessness costs more than it would to treat the problem. |
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-Stéphanie has worked with international organisations, non-profits and charities in communications, research, fundraising and advocacy. She is currently an editor at the World Economic Forum in New York. We Shouldn’t Treat the Homeless as Criminals. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/25/we-shouldnt-treat-the-homeless-like-criminals |
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-Minorities face higher rents and are shown less options. |
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-Housing Discrimination Against Racial and Ethnic Minorities 2012. https://www.huduser.gov/portal/Publications/pdf/HUD-514_HDS2012.pdf |
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-Solvency: A right to housing would create a cultural and legal shift to improve housing for the homeless. |
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-Maria Foscarinis National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. Brad Paul National Policy and Advocacy Council on Homelessness (NPACH). Bruce Porter Social Rights Advocacy Centre. Andrew Scherer Legal Services for New York City. The Human Right to Housing: Making the Case in US Advocacy http://sites.uci.edu/humanrights/files/2013/02/porter_the_human_right_to_housing.pdf |
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-Plus, Low-income housing decreases crime: Crime for survival is less necessary. |
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-Matthew Freedman and Emily G. Owens (Profes- sor in the Department of Labor Economics, Cornell University; Professor in Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University). “Low- income housing development and crime.” Journal of Urban Economics. 2011. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094119011000301 |
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-of distressed communities. |