Centrality of the right to adequate housing for the development and implementation of the New Urban Agenda to be adopted at Habitat III in October 2016 2015, para. 56
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In response to these systemic patterns of inequality and social exclusion with respect to land, human rights movements have emerged in cities with proposals for a reorientation of land and property rights that prioritizes the social function of land and its central role in the realization of the right to adequate housing. Ensuring more equitable access to land and property and the prevention of land grabbing is central to many struggles for housing rights in cities. The human rights agenda of Habitat III must be informed by these creative approaches to urban land and property. Unless the primacy of human rights over market forces and private profit is entrenched, a new urban agenda that reduces inequalities and is based on inclusion and sustainability will be unachievable.
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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
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N.A.
Topic(s)
Environment
Governance & Rule of Law
Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
N.A.
Year
2015
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Housing, Report to the UNGA (2015), A/70/270, para. 56.