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The human right to adequate housing is more than just four walls and a roof. It is the right of every woman, man, youth and child to gain and sustain a safe and secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity |
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The Right to Adequate Housing Toolkit |
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Elements of the right to adequate housing
- Legal security of tenure: Regardless of the type of tenure, all persons should possess a degree of security of tenure which guarantees legal protection against forced eviction, harassment and other threats;
- Affordability: Personal or household financial costs associated with housing should not threaten or compromise the attainment and satisfaction of other basic needs (for example, food, education, access to health care);
- Habitability: Adequate housing should provide for elements such as adequate space, protection from cold, damp, heat, rain, wind or other threats to health, structural hazards, and disease vectors;
- Availability of services, materials, facilities and infrastructure: Housing is not adequate if its occupants do not have safe drinking water, adequate sanitation, energy for cooking, heating and lighting, sanitation and washing facilities, means of food storage, refuse disposal, etc.;
- Accessibility: Housing is not adequate if the specific needs of disadvantaged and marginalized groups are not taken into account (such as the poor, people facing discrimination; persons with disabilities, victims of natural disasters);
- Location: Adequate housing must allow access to employment options, health-care services, schools, child-care centres and other social facilities and should not be built on polluted sites nor in immediate proximity to pollution sources;
- Cultural adequacy: Adequate housing should respect and take into account the expression of cultural identity and ways of life.
- Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment n°4
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Indicators
Here are illustrative examples of indicators to implement and measure elements of the right to adequate housing based on the Human Rights Indicators framework developed by OHCHR:
Publications
Mechanisms dealing with housing rights:
Special Procedures
Treaty Bodies
Others
Finding recommendations of human rights mechanisms to States on the right to adequate housing, forced evictions and other issues: Universal Human Rights Index
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing (A/63/275), Part IV Arabic | Chinese | English | French | Russian | Spanish
Compilation of Selected Adjudication on housing rights (2006)
Report of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Housing Rights: The Duty to Ensure Housing for All
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