The right to adequate housing of persons with disabilities 2017, para. 48
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- The Special Rapporteur also emphasizes that reasonable accommodation in housing is often linked to systemic patterns of discrimination and imbalances in power “which result in a society being designed well for some and not for others”. The Supreme Court of Canada warned that reasonable accommodation claims should not be allowed to shield systemic discrimination from scrutiny or leave in place imbalances in power that have led to the neglect of the needs or perspectives of marginalized groups in the design of policies. It is important to ask, in each individual case, not only what is required by the individual person with a disability to ensure equality, but also why the housing system created the need for individual accommodation in the first place. Requests for modifications of buildings or housing policies are usually only made because those requirements were not adequately considered when buildings or policies were designed in the first place. Persons with disabilities must be empowered to challenge housing, planning and zoning, social protection and justice systems that fail to meet their needs and thus deny them access to adequate housing.
- Status juridique
- Droit souple non-négocié
- Organe
- Rapporteur spécial sur le logement convenable en tant qu'élément du droit à un niveau de vie suffisant
- Type de document
- Rapport des procédures spéciales
- Mode d'adoption
- S/O
- Thèmes
- Droits sociaux et culturels
- Égalité & Inclusion
- Gouvernance & l'état de droit
- Personnes concernées
- Personnes handicapées
- Année
- 2017
- Type de paragraphe
- Autre
- Paragraph focus
- Central principles of the human rights-based approach to disability
- Paragraph number
- 48
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