The right to adequate housing

Abstract

This chapter surveys the international, regional and domestic entrenchment of the right to adequate housing, together with the ways in which textual formulations of the right have been deployed in concrete contexts. The chapter argues that assertions of housing rights often mean the limitation of property rights and the disruption of economic hierarchies that are based on them. This claim is illustrated by an analysis of housing rights jurisprudence from around the world, focusing on the rights of informal settlers, unlawful occupiers, residential tenants and women with precarious land tenure.

Topics & Concepts