The right to adequate housing of persons with disabilities 2017, para. 13

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When seeking both private and public housing, persons with disabilities face overt and indirect discrimination. Sometimes access to housing is denied because of an irrational fear that facilities will be contaminated. Income and employment status is used in many countries to vet prospective tenants such that well-paid, full-time workers without a disability are considered to be “qualified” for affordable rental housing, while persons with disabilities with lower incomes are denied access. People with psychosocial disabilities are often treated as unworthy tenants because of “abnormal” behaviour that is defined as “antisocial”. Persons with intellectual disabilities are also discriminated against on the basis of an assumed lack of capacity to take care of the premises and deprived of the legal capacity to sign rental agreements.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Persons with disabilities
Year
2017
Paragraph type
Other
Paragraph focus
Housing realities of persons with disabilities
Paragraph number
13