Jessie Hohmann, THE RIGHT TO HOUSING: LAW, CONCEPTS, POSSIBILITIES. Oxford: Hart Publishing (www.hartpub.co.uk), 2013. x + 276 pp. ISBN 9781849461535. £50.
| Author | Adrian Stalker |
| DOI | 10.3366/elr.2015.0266 |
| Published date | 01 January 2015 |
| Date | 01 January 2015 |
| Pages | 159-161 |
Ours is a world in which events such as war, natural disaster, city regeneration, repossession, and international sport and rural development schemes render millions homeless every year, in which even the most prosperous states have homeless populations in the hundreds of thousands and where more than one billion people are crowded into informal settlements on the margins of economic and political life. However, the meaning, content, scope and even existence of a right to housing raise vexed questions. On the one hand, the right appears in major international and regional human rights covenants, yet its status as a human right is often treated with skepticism. The right to housing remains marginal or underdeveloped in our study of human rights. In such a harsh world, what role can a human right as nebulous and contested as the right to housing play? Thus the author frames the question that motivates this work. As the title suggests, her answer is given in three parts.
Part I (“Law”) offers an analysis of the right to housing (“the right”) as found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (article 25(1)), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (article 11(1)); consideration of the role of the right in certain subject specific international conventions (e.g. the...
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