ABSTRACT
Responsibility as a social practice entails norms of behaviour that identify appropriate means and ends for one's social activities, as well as authorities charged with upholding these norms. The social-connection model requires that individuals learn to see themselves as responsible for actions that they did not intend or directly carry out, but for which they can be held accountable because of their participation in institutionalised social relationships. The social-connection model requires an understanding of the moral agent as a connected and responsive agent, both influenced by and influencing others, which contrasts with the autonomous and rational agent of liberal moral agency. Democratic activism is the virtue of the social-connection model. The central commitment that sets radical political organising for the human right to housing apart is their distinctive use of the language of human rights. Activists defending the human right to housing offer one response.
