Housing Is A Human Right

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In solidarity with tenants across the United States affected by COVID-19, I wrote this song to bring attention to the rent strike currently occurring, and that will continue on May 1st. I encourage each and everyone to connect with their local tenant union to organize. You have rights, and it is time you exert them.

Official Music Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NYSgr8MmmA

Vertical Music Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8H0yJLKGM0

lyrics

Housing is a human right,
I’m taking time to shine a light
on it.

A cozy place to sleep at night,
I need one and I’m down to fight
for it.

A brother sleeps outside again,
the concrete is his only friend
in the night.

A policeman comes to wake him up,
it’s time to move his things again,
not again...

Can I ask you my friend,
will homelessness ever end?

It’s time to pay the rent again,
a struggle I would like to end
with this song.

Do corporations own it all?
Or is up to us to make the call?
Tell me now
if I’m wrong.

When your neighbor moves out
'cause they cannot figure out
what to do
anymore.

Do you have to be rich
for the right to exist?
And for some-
one to care
about you?

“Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.”

― Jordan Flaherty, Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six

credits

released May 1, 2020
Composed, written, produced, and performed by Youceff Yunque Kabal.
Additional writing by Jordan Flaherty.
Mixed and mastered by Dave Chapman at Endless Noise.

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YUS Los Angeles, California

YUS™ is the sound of American artist Youceff Yunque Kabal. Drawing from an eclectic set of influences, YUS creates emotive soundscapes that strike listeners with their depth and impactful lyrics.

photo by dxtx

discography

Hyperspiritual

May 2024
A Way Out

Oct 2022
The Question

May 2021
Favorites Remixed III

Dec 2020
Housing Is A Human Right

May 2020
El Yunque

Dec 2018
Talisman

Jun 2014
Nowadays

Oct 2012
Favorites Remixed II

Sep 2012
Favorites Remixed

Dec 2011
Besides

Jan 2011
Palms

Nov 2010

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