The right to adequate housing in disaster relief efforts 2011, para. 24
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- The Special Rapporteur notes the centrality of tenure security in the right to adequate housing. Tenure security does not equate to a right to private ownership, nor is it limited to the conferral of formal legal titles. There is a multiplicity of legitimate tenure arrangements besides private ownership, such as public or private rental accommodation, cooperative housing, lease, occupation/rent of land or property in informal settlements, and other user or occupancy rights through customary or traditional arrangements all with varying degrees of formality. It follows that only a minority of victims of natural disasters may in effect have individual, formally registered, ownership rights to their housing or land.
- 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)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Housing, Report to the UNGA (2011), A/66/270, para. 24.
- Paragraph number
- 24
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