Financialization of housing and the right to adequate housing 2017, para. 61
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- In that case, the author was able to remain in her home and the Committee did not address the question of whether foreclosure and eviction from housing, potentially into homelessness, was a reasonable remedy in the case of mortgage or rent default or whether it was consistent with State obligations to respect the right to adequate housing. It is hoped that the issue will be subject to consideration and clarification by the Committee and other human rights bodies in future cases. In the Special Rapporteur's view, the all too common practice of depriving people of their homes as a remedy for outstanding mortgage or rental arrears should be subject to more rigorous human rights review than it has received to date from domestic courts and international human rights bodies.
- 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
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Housing, Report to the HRC (2017), A/HRC/34/51, para. 61.
- Paragraph number
- 61
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