{"id":30251,"date":"2025-05-02T17:25:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T00:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/mmi-says-three-bedroom-houses-are-a-human-right\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T17:25:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T00:25:37","slug":"mmi-says-three-bedroom-houses-are-a-human-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/mmi-says-three-bedroom-houses-are-a-human-right\/","title":{"rendered":"MMI Says Three-bedroom Houses Are A Human Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1003295804 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canadiancontractor.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mmi-logo.jpg\" alt=\"-\" width=\"160\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.canadiancontractor.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mmi-logo.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.canadiancontractor.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mmi-logo-211x200.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.canadiancontractor.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mmi-logo-421x400.jpg 421w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Believe it or not, there\u2019s a serious argument to be made that access to a three-bedroom house could be considered a fundamental human right in Canada. The Missing Middle Initiative <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.missingmiddleinitiative.ca\/p\/housing-as-a-human-right-requires?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=3557509&amp;post_id=161235252&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=7x88g&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">lays it all out here<\/a>. Essentially, it comes down to the following points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>International law says access to \u201cadequate housing\u201d is a human right;<\/li>\n<li>Canada has a National Occupancy Standard that defines \u201cadequate\u201d as being one bedroom per child (in many circumstances) with a separate bedroom for the parents;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAccess\u201d would suggest the housing should be affordable on a median income.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.missingmiddleinitiative.ca\/p\/housing-as-a-human-right-requires?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=3557509&amp;post_id=161235252&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=7x88g&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole article.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=761779333850340&version=v2.0\";\n\t  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadiancontractor.ca\/features\/mmi-says-three-bedroom-houses-are-a-human-right\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Believe it or not, there\u2019s a serious argument to be made that access to a three-bedroom house could be &#8230; <a title=\"MMI Says Three-bedroom Houses Are A Human Right\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/mmi-says-three-bedroom-houses-are-a-human-right\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about MMI Says Three-bedroom Houses Are A Human Right\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090],"tags":[1091],"class_list":["post-30251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-contractor","tag-canada","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}