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Rights to Housing: Reviewing the Terrain and Exploring a Way Forward [PDF]

open access: yesThe Housingory and Society, 2014
Exacerbated by the specificity of housing as a welfare good, debates on housing, citizenship and rights are complex and often confusing. This article attempts to clarify the debate on rights-based approaches in the field of housing, shelter and ...
Suzanne Fitzpatrick   +2 more
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A Right to Housing

2021
Abstract This chapter considers the structural effect on the system of duties that would come with recognizing a human right to housing. If there is such a right, there is pressure on the interpretation of a property system to support hybrid moral value connecting possession and the conditions of moral status.
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The right to housing

2020
This chapter describes the human rights-based approach to housing and analyses it from a critical social policy perspective. The first section outlines the importance of housing as a human right, the second explores the distinctiveness of housing and a third section provides a case study of a community advocacy group, Participation and the Practice of ...
Dessie Donnelly   +2 more
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Housing as a Right

2021
This chapter discusses the right to housing as a human right. After setting out some of the key conceptual and theoretical questions around the right, the chapter canvasses significant international, regional and domestic constitutional protections of the right.
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Domestic Violence and Housing Rights: A Reinterpretation of the Right to Housing

Human Rights Quarterly, 2006
This article examines the connections between domestic violence and the right to housing. While much attention has been paid to domestic violence as a violation of civil and political rights, little has been given to its unquestionable links to the socioeconomic conditions surrounding and leading to the violence.
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The Right to the City and the Right to Housing

2021
Housing is part of social protection and has a specific mention in the programme of the Sustainable Development Goals. The basic call of the COVID -19 lockdown was: stay home, stay safe. This assumes that one must have a home to be safe in. Millions of people do not have the luxury of a safe and secure home.
Francine Mestrum, Meena Menon
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Homelessness, Housing First, and the Right to Housing—Confronting Right and Reality

Human Rights Review, 2020
The scale of homelessness in Europe throws a stark light on the right to housing that exists in many European states and in European and International Law. This disparity between legal right and the social reality of homelessness and housing precarity begs the question as to the efficacy of a rights-based approach to housing. This article examines the ‘
Owen Taylor   +2 more
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Housing Issue and Right to Housing in Palermo

2021
This article explores the dichotomy between interests and values in the field of the right to housing for homeless people, focusing on the informal practices of reappropriation of spaces (properties owned by the Municipality of Palermo) in the case study of Palermo.
Annalisa Giampino   +2 more
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Financialization of Housing and the Right to Adequate Housing

2021
This short essay discusses the financialization of housing/construction sector and the right to adequate housing in the context of recent policy initiatives and incentives provided by the government of Pakistan.
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