Housing A Constitutional Amendment

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Housing A Constitutional Amendment is the slogan and title of a long-running series of fliers, sandwich boards, and home-made advertisements in Manhattan, New York, especially in the West Village area. Although the campaign most often concerns a proposed constitutional amendment to provide low-income housing to all citizens, fliers with this title quite frequently mix that message with other issues (such as pornography reform, AIDS reform, etc).

This campaign has apparently been going on for at least the past four years, and possibly longer.

It is not entirely known who is the driving force behind this campaign.

Here are some blogs concerning this activity:

http://youngcurmudgeon.typepad.com/photos/protestwarriorrnc/rnc_016.html

http://nocommercialpotential.net/noise0701.shtml

Contents 1 Text of the amendment 2 Contact info 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Text of the amendment

In addition to the words "Housing A Constitutional Amendment", fliers of this campaign typically include the following text [capitalization and punctuation errors are copied verbatim from a flier] along with other wording.

"Constitutional Amendment - XXVII-

No person being a citizen of the United estates of America
regardless of their relgiion, national origin, race, sex,
Age, marital status, military service, disability or income shall
be deprived or denied adequate affordable housing.

Such adequate affordable housing shall be of such so as
not to deprive or deny any citizen of any rights written in the
united states constitution.

Any circumstance or housing that lead to housing
Arrangements other than adequate affordable housing that
shall result in a citizen deprived of any constitutional
rights shall be unconstitutional.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
Appropriate legislation."

[edit] Contact info

Fliers for this campaign typically list an address of:

D.C. HOUSING A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT,
Cooper Station, P.O. Box 281 New York, NY 10276

[edit] See also

See Culture jamming

[edit] External links

These links concern a proposed constitutional amendment concerning housing that is similar to that proposed by
the flyers, sponsored by Jesse Jackson, Jr.

• H. J. RES. 32:Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States respecting the right to decent, safe, sanitary, and affordable housing.
• Statement concerning above proposed constitutional amendment
• Speech concerning above proposed constitutional amendment