La vivienda y el derecho de propiedad: financiarización, turistificación y comunidades locales
El derecho a la vivienda y el derecho de propiedad suelen entenderse como derechos en conflicto, de tal forma que la protección de uno de ellos requeriría la limitación del...
Housing and the Right to Property: Financialisation, Touristification, and Local Communities
The right to housing and the right to property are often understood as being in conflict, with the protection of one right requiring the restriction of the other. In her...
Housing and Human Rights Futures
This brilliant book, ‘Housing and Human Rights’ by Jessie Hohmann, is a model of theory and practice. It concludes in Chapter 9 with five human rights principles, or premises, for...
Asset-Based Welfare as Housing Injustice, and a Human Rights Response
Earlier this year, a newborn infant died at an informal encampment of unhoused people in the town of Wagga Wagga, Australia. The encampment is a collection of tents and self-constructed...
Demolition Before Verification: Nepal’s Eviction Drive and the Right to Housing
Within weeks of assuming office, Nepal’s new Prime Minister Balendra Shah directed security forces to clear informal riverside settlements across Kathmandu Valley. On 25 April, bulldozers rolled into various such...
From Housing Rights to Street Situations: The Juridical Narrowing of Homelessness
On 30 March 2026, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted a resolution on the human rights of persons in street situations without a vote, marking the first standalone...
Affordable Housing and Reasonable Standards of Sanitation in Kenya
In the Global South, particularly in Africa, to be born and raised in a poor background is to learn the harshness of life too early. It’s waking up in a...
The Changing Tides of Delictual Liability: State Failure at the Intersection of Housing and Property Rights in Johannesburg
A recent South African High Court decision, Changing Tides 74 v City of Johannesburg, marks a significant legal turn, testing how private law can respond to chronic state inaction in...
Finding the Essence of Non-Retrogression: A Path to Stronger Social Rights Accountability
Time and again, States have been warned by courts, UN bodies, and NGOs against taking retrogressive steps in economic and social rights. For instance, cuts to essential healthcare funding or...
When Bulldozer Justice Breeds Injustice: Indian Supreme Court Curtails Arbitrary Demolitions
On 13 November 2024, the apex court of India delivered a landmark judgment in In Re: Directions in the matter of demolition of structures addressing the important injustice being caused...
Bromwell Street: Constitutional Court judgment moves one step closer to a socially and spatially just South Africa
On 20 December 2024, South Africa’s Constitutional Court (‘Court’) handed down a landmark judgment in Commando and Others v The City of Cape Town addressing the important issue of spatial...
Indirect Criminalisation of Homelessness: Justice Sotomayor’s dissenting opinion in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson
Homelessness continues to disproportionately affect the most vulnerable and disadvantaged populations in the US and across the world. However, there is a discernible change in judicial opinion in the US...
