Problem

Denial of right to sufficient shelter


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Other Names:
Denial of the right to adequate housing
Denial of housing rights
Violation of right to adequate housing
Nature:

Eight criteria of housing rights for people have been proposed: (a) security of tenure; (b) affordability without deprivations of other basic needs; (c) accessibility in terms of access to basic infrastructure, finance on reasonable terms, social services, water sanitation facilities, refuse disposal and access to transport, to information of a technical nature, to building materials and to land at affordable and safe locations; (d) habitability in the form of protection for the physical safety of the inhabitants; (e) control and participation through community-based organizations which represented their interests; (f) freedom of choice as to where and how they wanted to live; (g) non-discrimination, in the form of the prohibition of discrimination on ground of race, ethnic origin, gender, age, social status, sexual orientation, physical disability, medical status (particularly in the case of AIDS), political or religious beliefs, class or any other grounds; and (h) legal protection in that people must have access to judicial or other legal remedies and legal aid if their housing rights were infringed.

Incidence:

In 1989 it was estimated that more than 1 billion people live in inadequate houses, and over 100 million live in conditions of absolute homelessness, with no shelter at all. This estimate had not changed in 1997.

The housing crisis of past decades was, for many persons and peoples, the result of a disregard for the right to adequate housing. one United Nations document stated that the difficult economic situation of many countries in the early 1980s was reflected in a rapid decline in resources available for investments and related services in the field of human settlements. National housing subsidies, rent controls and housing loans have been steadily diminishing.

Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 1: No PovertyGOAL 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Problem Type:
D: Detailed problems
Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST