Henrietta Hughes and Housing as a Human Right

At a town hall meeting last week, Henrietta Hughes bravely stood up in front of the room full of people to ask the president for help for those like herself who are unemployed and forced to live in their car. She said:

“I have an urgent need, unemployment and homelessness, a very small vehicle for my family and I to live in. The housing authority has two years’ waiting lists, and we need something more than the vehicle and the parks to go to. We need our own kitchen and our own bathroom. Please help.”

Via Feministe, we find that her question resulted in an assault by conservative pundits, and it’s truly enough to make one sick. Michelle Malkin was the biggest bully, snarkily saying:

If she had more time, she probably would have remembered to ask Obama to fill up her gas tank, too… Well, pardon my unbending belief in fairness and personal responsibility, but why should my tax dollars go to feed the housing entitlement beast?

Um, I don’t know about you, but this “housing entitlement beast” i.e. homelessness is a pretty damn good cause to care about and put our money toward. Of course Rush Limbaugh jumped in as well, falsely saying that she “ask[ed] for a car,” with others contending that she’s “using the system.” It’s stories like this that exposes just how truly disgusting the likes of Malkin and Limbaugh are.
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