Financialization of housing and the right to adequate housing 2017, para. 52
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The excessive financialization of housing is directly related to systemic patterns of inequality in investment treaties and in domestic law that fail to recognize the paramountcy of human rights over investor interests and deny access to justice for those whose right to housing is at stake. Ensuring meaningful accountability of financial institutions and private actors to the right to housing will require a significant transformation of current systems of law and accountability and new avenues of access to justice at the local, national and international levels.
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
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N.A.
Topic(s)
Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
All
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Year
2017
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Other
Reference
SR Housing, Report to the HRC (2017), A/HRC/34/51, para. 52.