Post conflict and post disaster reconstruction and the right to adequate housing 2011, para. 14
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- The right to housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living is internationally recognized. "[T]he right to housing should not be interpreted in a narrow or restrictive sense which equates it with, for example, the shelter provided by merely having a roof over one's head or views shelter exclusively as a commodity. Rather it should be seen as the right to live somewhere in security, peace and dignity". In line with this interpretation, "adequacy" is measured against a list of key factors including: legal security of tenure; availability of services, materials, facilities and infrastructure; affordability; habitability; accessibility; location; and cultural adequacy. Housing is therefore not simply a shelter commodity. It is much more than a physical structure for protection from the elements, and its value extends beyond what it will cost to buy, sell or rebuild. Housing has inherent social value.
- 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)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Housing, Report to the HRC (2011), A/HRC/16/42, para. 14.
- Paragraph number
- 14
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