This chapter is focused on the challenges and implications of Articles 20(1), 21, 22, 24, and 44 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP; the Declaration). These provisions are centered on: the economic, social, and cultural (ESC) rights of indigenous...

This Chapter suggests a research agenda on the right to housing. First, it sets out the context of violation of the right, before turning to examine the right as codified in international law and in key national constitutions. It then identifies three key challenges in realising the right, which...

This chapter considers how the approaches of the various UN Special Rapporteurs on housing have fed into the development of the content of the right to housing in international and domestic law. Here, I address two themes that emerge from the Reports of the Special Rapporteurs on adequate...

This paper considers the Grenfell Tower fire as a breach of the right to housing by the UK, in contravention of its obligations under international law. I examine how the fire, the underlying housing conditions that at least in part led to it, and the government's response, breach the elements...

The struggle for access to and control over a space in which to live has made housing a central issue for the city of Mumbai. The city’s history is one in which human rights and, in particular, the right to housing have played an important role. This article examines the Indian Supreme...

Global climate change has triggered a period of great instability in the Arctic. Indigenous communities are experiencing rapid social and cultural transformation: changes in the physical landscape are contributing to the relentless pressures on their traditional ways of life, which, in large...

This is the introduction to a monograph on the right to housing as a human right. 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...

This article argues that while a human right to housing is often posited as too radical, stretching the human rights corpus beyond its appropriate shape, the way in which the right to housing has been interpreted by courts and by those international bodies responsible for developing it appears...