AOC with a new basic human right

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) on Thursday called for housing to be “legislated as a human right” during a town hall event in the Bronx.

“We have to make sure that housing is being legislated as a human right,” she could be seen saying in videos from the event. "What does that mean? What it means is that our access and our ability and our guarantee to having a home comes before someone else’s privilege to earn a profit.”

“I move into this luxury building in D.C. ... It’s an efficient building. It’s clean. It has public space. It has a rooftop garden — y’all watch my Instagram. It has all of these things right. It has clean air. It has clean water and I think about this and I’m like, ‘This is what a ‘luxury building’ is like.’ Right?” she said.

“I just toured an affordable housing unit yesterday in Queens and this is one of the first developments of its kind in the borough of Queens in almost 30 years,” she continued. “Sixty-seven units of affordable senior housing. Twenty to 30 percent of those units were reserved for seniors who were formerly homeless. It’s a phenomenal building. It was built using passive house methods and technology. So its 90 percent more carbon-efficient and 90 cleaner than any other building in New York City. And it’s affordable housing run by a not-for-profit.”

“So I go in and I do a tour with one of these seniors, right? And she opens the doors and I look and I open and it looks just like my apartment,” she says to laughs form the audience.

“So what that shows me and what that tells us is that what we have been taught that is a luxury should not be a luxury,” she adds. LINK