Housing isn’t a right, it’s something you must work for

Monday’s Province contained a shocking letter to the editor from Sophia Rollke, arguing that shelter is a basic right. She wrote that “if a homeless person had a home, it would be motivation to get a job.”

This country was founded on the notion that you should get an education so that you can get a good job so that you can buy a home so that you won’t become homeless. In other words, become a contributing citizen to Canada’s high standard of living.

What Rollke wrote is 100 per cent backwards and utter nonsense. Steven James, Vancouver