Back الحق في السكن Arabic বাসস্থানৰ অধিকাৰ Assamese Karapatan sa paharong BCL Dret a l'habitatge Catalan Právo na bydlení Czech Yr hawl i gartref Welsh Retten til husly Danish Right to housing DAG Recht auf Wohnen German Derecho a la vivienda Spanish
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The right to housing (occasionally right to shelter[1]) is the economic, social and cultural right to adequate housing and shelter. It is recognized in some national constitutions and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.[2] The right to housing is regarded as a freestanding right in the International human rights law which was clearly in the 1991 General Comment on Adequate Housing by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The aspect of the right to housing under ICESCR include: availability of services, infrastructure, material and facilities; legal security of tenure; habitability; accessibility; affordability; location and cultural adequacy.[3]
The UN Human Settlement Programme is known as UN-HABITAT.[4]
At least 84 states make an explicit reference to housing rights in their constitutions.[5]
- ^ Mishra, Prafulla C. (1998). "Right to Shelter: A Human Richt Perspective". Journal of the Indian Law Institute. 40 (1/4): 230–242. ISSN 0019-5731. JSTOR 43953319.
- ^ Edgar, Bill; Doherty, Joe; Meert, Henk (2002). Access to housing: homelessness and vulnerability in Europe. The Policy Press. pp. 16–17. ISBN 978-1-86134-482-3.
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- ^ Pattillo, Mary (2024). "Housing as a Right". Journal of the American Planning Association. doi:10.1080/01944363.2024.2386911. ISSN 0194-4363.