Is decent housing a human right?

[Oldfellah]

Hmmm, and how much of a role should 'effort' play in accessing this human right? Is it not that effort that is reflected in the various kinds of shelter we can access as individuals? As disproportionate as that seems to be these days...

I don't quite understand what you mean by "effort" in this context.   Are you saying that the harder a citizen works the better the accommodation she/he is entitled to?   That ignores many variables including disability, race and gender discrimination and family inheritance.

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If houses were built just for rental purposes I really think they will become tomorrows slums because the article states It is a form of housing that’s developed with the intention that units will be retained by the developer as permanent rental properties.

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Not necessarily.   In many European cities renting is a perfectly respectable long term form of accommodation, tenants's rights are respected and landlords have security of income.   My experience in a big apartment building in Berlin which was part owner-occupied and part tenanted was that all of the residents took responsibility for upkeep, communal activities such as recycling.   The pre-war building was in fine shape.

The same could happen in Aotearoa.

Fair enough but New Zealand is not the rest of the world or Berlin we are a nation all on our own and sadly this nation appears not to have respect for other peoples property, for starters the gangs are always looking for new places to live, the 501 deportees will need somewhere to live, and what I have noticed is that new immigrants from 3rd world countries (nothing against them) tend to live anywhere from 2 to 4 families in a house because thats what they are used to, I know it works in other countries , been there done that but I really dont think it will work in New Zealand. Just my opinion of course