Right to housing

Right to housing is one of second-generation human rights (economic, social and cultural rights). Its grounds in the international law are Article 11 of ICESCR, Article 16 of the European Social Charter, Article 31 of the Revised European Social charter. Implicitly, right to housing is granted also under African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.^[1] According to UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, aspects of right to housing under ICESCR include: legal security of tenure; availability of services, materials, facilities and infrastructure; affordability; habitability; accessibility; location and cultural adequacy.^[2]

As a political goal, right to housing was declared in F. D. Roosevelt's 1944 speech on the Second Bill of Rights.

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• Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, UN
  • His report to UN HRC, 2008. A/HRC/7/16
• International standards of the right to housing
• Housing Rights Legislation: Review of International and National Legal Instruments
• CESCR General comments:
  • The right to adequate housing (Art.11 (1)). CESCR General comment 4, 1991
  • The right to adequate housing (Art.11.1): forced evictions. CESCR General comment 7, 1997
• Factsheet on right to housing, UN
• CoE Commissioner for Human Rights:
  • Recommendation on the implementation of the right to housing, 2009
  • Housing Rights: The Duty to Ensure Housing for All, 2008
  • “No one should have to be homeless – adequate housing is a right”, 2007
• Interpretation and application of Article 31 of RESC//Digest of the Case Law of the European Committee on Social Rights, 2008 — pp. 169—173, 349—355
• Right to Housing Geneva: CETIM, 2007. ISBN 2-88053-61-X

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