The right to adequate housing of persons with disabilities 2017, para. 13
Paragraphe- Paragraph text
- When seeking both private and public housing, persons with disabilities face overt and indirect discrimination. Sometimes access to housing is denied because of an irrational fear that facilities will be contaminated. Income and employment status is used in many countries to vet prospective tenants such that well-paid, full-time workers without a disability are considered to be “qualified” for affordable rental housing, while persons with disabilities with lower incomes are denied access. People with psychosocial disabilities are often treated as unworthy tenants because of “abnormal” behaviour that is defined as “antisocial”. Persons with intellectual disabilities are also discriminated against on the basis of an assumed lack of capacity to take care of the premises and deprived of the legal capacity to sign rental agreements.
- Status juridique
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personnes concernées
- Persons with disabilities
- Année
- 2017
- Type de paragraphe
- Other
- Paragraph focus
- Housing realities of persons with disabilities
- Paragraph number
- 13
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