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Housing rights and human rights
(FEANTSA, 2005)
Housing rights in Ireland.
(Kluwer, 2003)
Ireland has been the world leader in house price inflation since 1996, and has reached the highest level of home ownership among the OECD countries.1 Irish government housing policy has given the market a primary role in ...
Can housing rights be applied to modern housing systems?
(Emerald, 2010-05)
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to outline and examine the growing corpus of housing rights and assess their relevance and applicability to complex contemporary housing systems across the world.
Design/methodo ...
Can international housing rights based on public international law really impact on contemporary housing systems?
(Ashgate, 2010-12)
The concept of home advances a new basis for evaluating housing rights,
emphasising their human and personal benefits. Housing rights address, at a
national, regional and global level, displacement and dispossession, as ...
Housing rights: positive duties and enforceable rights at the European Court of Human Rights.
(Sweet & Maxwell, 2008)
Discusses the European Court of Human Rights' development of a human rights perspective on positive obligations in the context of housing. Traces the move from traditional liberal concepts of negative rights, the influence ...
Housing and human rights
(Elsevier, 2011)
Housing meets a primary human need and housing rights are now enshrined housing rights within international human rights law, regional and constitutional legal instruments. These rights extend beyond shelter, and encompass ...
Local authorities and the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003
(Clarus Press, 2010)
This article discusses the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights Act
2003 (ECHR Act) on local authorities in Ireland. The Act creates a new framework
for the representative, regulatory, agency and service ...
Land law, property, housing and the environment.
(Jordan Publishing Ltd, 2009)
This chapter considers the possible impact of the European Convention on Human
Rights Act 2003 (ECHR Act) on Irish law in selected areas of land and property,
planning, housing and environment law1 - areas associated ...
Housing rights - the new benchmarks for housing policy in Europe?
(American Bar Association, 2005-11)
Rights to housing are regularly proposed as the solution to poor
housing and homelessness by advocates and campaigning organizations.
This approach is viewed as having the critical international acclaim
and legal clarity ...
International instruments on housing rights
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)
Housing rights can act to guarantee minimum housing provision for poor and deprived persons, based on respect for human
dignity. These rights are now established within many international public law instruments and treaties, ...