Principle, Politics and practice: The role of un special rapporteurs on the right to adequate housing in the development of the right to housing in international law
- Publisher:
- Brill | Nijhoff
- Publication Type:
- Chapter
- Citation:
- Nottingham Studies on Human Rights, 2017, 6, pp. 271-296
- Issue Date:
- 2017-01-01
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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 housing as central and enduring factors underlying the violation of the right. These themes are: women's housing rights; and economic globalisation and the financialisation and marketisation of housing. I argue that, in their work on these two issues, the Special Rapporteurs have attacked in a deeply structural fashion the failure of States to ensure the right to adequate housing, and in doing so have provided an important - even radical - critique of the prevailing social and economic paradigm. In the context of a complex interaction among principles, politics and practice within which all Special Rapporteurs work these reports remain important normative statements on a world in which the right to adequate housing is possible, even if their impact on the ground has often been muted by those same political and practical factors.
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