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Author : Rachel G. Bratt,Michael E. Stone,Chester W. Hartman
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1592134335
An examination of America's housing crisis by the leading progressive housing activists in the country.
Author : Nico Moons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351605618
From the very first negotiations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights half a century ago to the present day, socio-economic rights have often been regarded as less enforceable than civil and political rights. The right to adequate housing, even though protecting one of the most basic needs of human beings, has not escaped this classification. Despite its strong foundations in international, regional and domestic legislation, many people are still deprived of one or more of the different key elements that comprise adequate housing. How, then, can international human rights theory and case law be developed into effective vehicles at the domestic level? Rather than focusing merely on possibilities for individualized relief through the court system, The Right to Housing in Law and Society looks into more effective socio-economic rights realization by addressing both conceptual and practical stumbling blocks that hinder a more structural progress at the national level. The Flemish and Belgian housing legislation and policy are used to highlight the problems and illustrate the pathways here presented. While first and foremost legal in its approach, the book also offers a more sociological perspective on the functioning of the right to housing in practice. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of interest to researchers, academics, policymakers and students in the fields of international socio-economic rights law and human rights law more generally.
Author : Jessie Hohmann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782250982
A human right to housing represents the law's most direct and overt protection of housing and home. Unlike other human rights, through which the home incidentally receives protection and attention, the right to housing raises housing itself to the position of primary importance. However, the meaning, content, scope and even existence of a right to housing raise vexed questions. Drawing on insights from disciplines including law, anthropology, political theory, philosophy and geography, this book is both a contribution to the state of knowledge on the right to housing, and an entry into the broader human rights debate. It addresses profound questions on the role of human rights in belonging and citizenship, the formation of identity, the perpetuation of forms of social organisation and, ultimately, of the relationship between the individual and the state. The book addresses the legal, theoretical and conceptual issues, providing a deep analysis of the right to housing within and beyond human rights law. Structured in three parts, the book outlines the right to housing in international law and in key national legal systems; examines the most important concepts of housing: space, privacy and identity and, finally, looks at the potential of the right to alleviate human misery, marginalisation and deprivation. The book represents a major contribution to the scholarship on an under-studied and ill-defined right. In terms of content, it provides a much needed exploration of the right to housing. In approach it offers a new framework for argument within which the right to housing, as well as other under-theorised and contested rights, can be reconsidered, reconnecting human rights with the social conditions of their violation, and hence with the reasons for their existence. Shortlisted for The Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2013.
Author : Peter Marcuse,David Madden
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784783563
In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it? Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence of displacement and gentrification. And the benefits of decent housing are only available for those who can afford it. In Defense of Housing is the definitive statement on this crisis from leading urban planner Peter Marcuse and sociologist David Madden. They look at the causes and consequences of the housing problem and detail the need for progressive alternatives. The housing crisis cannot be solved by minor policy shifts, they argue. Rather, the housing crisis has deep political and economic roots—and therefore requires a radical response.
Author : Ontario Human Rights Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Human rights
ISBN : OCLC:460168291
Author : Katrin B. Anacker,Mai Thi Nguyen,David P. Varady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317282693
The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies, housing policies, planning for housing, and housing innovations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Continental Europe. In 29 chapters, international scholars discuss aspects pertaining to the right to housing, inequality, homeownership, rental housing, social housing, senior housing, gentrification, cities and suburbs, and the future of housing policies. This book is essential reading for students, policy analysts, policymakers, practitioners, and activists, as well as others interested in housing policy and planning.
Author : Anindita Mukherjee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108720274
Examines the benefits of seeking legal recognition for the right to housing, within the Indian legal context.
Author : Rajindar Sachar,United Nations Centre for Human Rights
Publisher : New York, New York : United Nations
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015038134048
A new & timely publication made all the more urgent by the enormity by the global housing crisis, with inadequate housing threatening the health, safety & dignity of so many. An invaluable addition to the already successful Human Rights Study Series.
Author : Jennifer Dixon,Professor Ann Dupuis,Professor Sarah Blandy
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781409488583
This internationally edited collection addresses the issues raised by multi-owned residential developments, now established as a major type of housing throughout the world in the form of apartment blocks, row housing, gated developments, and master planned communities. The chapters draw on the empirical research of leading academics in the fields of planning, sociology, law and urban, property, tourism and environmental studies, and consider the practical problems of owning and managing this type of housing. The roles and relationships of power between developers, managing agents and residents are examined, as well as challenges such as environmental sustainability and state regulation of multi-owned residential developments. The book provides the first comparative study of such issues, offering lessons from experiences in the UK, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore and China.
Author : Shane Phillips
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781642831337
From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crises of high housing costs and household instability. Debates over the appropriate course of action have been defined by two poles: building more housing or enacting stronger tenant protections. These options are often treated as mutually exclusive, with support for one implying opposition to the other. Shane Phillips believes that effectively tackling the housing crisis requires that cities support both tenant protections and housing abundance. He offers readers more than 50 policy recommendations, beginning with a set of principles and general recommendations that should apply to all housing policy. The remaining recommendations are organized by what he calls the Three S’s of Supply, Stability, and Subsidy. Phillips makes a moral and economic case for why each is essential and recommendations for making them work together. There is no single solution to the housing crisis—it will require a comprehensive approach backed by strong, diverse coalitions. The Affordable City is an essential tool for professionals and advocates working to improve affordability and increase community resilience through local action.
Author : Andrew Clapham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198706168
Focusing on highly topical issues such as torture, arbitrary detention, privacy, and discrimination, this book will help readers to understand for themselves the controversies and complexities behind human rights.
Author : Udo Grashoff
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787355217
Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe brings together historians, anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, urban planners and political activists to break new ground in the globalisation of knowledge about informal housing. Providing both methodological reflections and practical examples, they compare informal settlements, unauthorised occupation of flats, illegal housing construction and political squatting in different regions of the world. Subjects covered include squatter settlements in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, squatting activism in Brazil and Spain, right-wing squatting in Germany, planning laws and informality across countries in the Global North, and squatting in post-Second World War UK and Australia.
Author : University of Toronto. Centre for Urban and Community Studies
Publisher : Centre for Urban & Regional Studies University of Birmingham
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000100279763
Author : Gregory D. Squires
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134822874
The federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed in a time of turmoil, conflict, and often conflagration in cities across the nation. It took the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to finally secure its passage. The Kerner Commission warned in 1968 that "to continue present policies is to make permanent the division of our country into two societies; one largely Negro and poor, located in the central cities; the other, predominantly white and affluent, located in the suburbs and outlying areas". The Fair Housing Act was passed with a dual mandate: to end discrimination and to dismantle the segregated living patterns that characterized most cities. The Fight for Fair Housing tells us what happened, why, and what remains to be done. Since the passage of the Fair Housing Act, the many forms of housing discrimination and segregation, and associated consequences, have been documented. At the same time, significant progress has been made in counteracting discrimination and promoting integration. Few suburbs today are all white; many people of color are moving to the suburbs; and some white families are moving back to the city. Unfortunately, discrimination and segregation persist. The Fight for Fair Housing brings together the nation’s leading fair housing activists and scholars (many of whom are in both camps) to tell the stories that led to the passage of the Fair Housing Act, its consequences, and the implications of the act going forward. Including an afterword by Walter Mondale, this book is intended for everyone concerned with the future of our cities and equal access for all persons to housing and related opportunities.
Author : Scott Leckie
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004482128
More than one billion people around the world do not have adequate housing. How far does human rights law help to remedy this problem? What measures must governments take to protect people against housing rights violations? What are the strengths and weaknesses of human rights law in the housing area? Is the current law enough, or are new laws necessary? These and many other questions are addressed in the various chapters contained in National Perspectives on Housing Rights. While most coverage of economic, social and cultural rights has tended to focus on international standards and principles, this book examines the more challenging question of how housing rights are implemented at the national and local level. Chapters from recognised housing rights practitioners from Brazil, Canada, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Philppines, South Africa, the US and elsewhere provide some of the first national-level legal analyses of the implementation of housing rights standards recognised under international law. A foreword by Nelson Mandela and a preface by international legal scholar Professor Philip Alston provide interesting perspectives on the fundamental role of housing rights within the broader human rights field.