Under international human rights law, a home is a basic human right and as essential to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as food, education and health care. The lack of affordable housing and the normativity of homelessness in the United States is a direct violation to the right to an adequate standard of living. Ultimately, the pathways to ending and preventing homelessness must recognize that a home is a basic human right as essential to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.