The Right to Housing

Jessie Hohmann is a lecturer in law at Queen Mary, University of London.

Introduction. The Right to Housing: Law, Concepts, Possibilities
I Assumptions, Definitions, Scope
PART I LAW
Introduction
1 The Right to Housing in the International Bill of Rights
I Introduction
II Universal Declaration of Human Rights
III International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
IV International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
2 The Right to Housing in Subject-Specific International Conventions
I Introduction
II Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
III Convention on the Rights of the Child
IV Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
V Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment
VI Conclusion
3 The Right to Housing in Regional Covenants
I Introduction
II The Right to Housing in Europe
III African Regional Housing Rights
IV Inter-American Human Rights System
V Arab Charter on Human Rights
VI Conclusions on the Regional Protection of the Right to Housing
4 The Right to Housing as a Constitutional Right: South African and Indian Experiences
I Introduction
II A Justiciable Right to Housing: the South African Approach
III The Right to Housing as a Right to Life: the Indian Approach
5 The De-radicalised Right to Housing: An Assessment of Interpretive Failings
I Introduction
II Gaps and Weaknesses in the Legal Interpretation of the Right to Housing
III Conclusion
PART II CONCEPTS
Introduction
6 Privacy
I Introduction
II Public/Private and the Operation of Law in the Creation of Homelessness
III Visible Homelessness of Street and Pavement Dwellers and Deprivation of the Private
IV Women's Essential Homelessness and Enforced Privacy
V Erasing the Public/Private Distinction and the Hidden Homelessness of Domestic Workers
VI Conclusion: Homelessness, Rightlessness and the Right to Housing as Social Belonging
7 Identity
I Introduction
II Promoting Identity: Constituting Personhood and Community through Housing
III Constraining and Erasing Identities: Housing as Social Control
IV Conclusion
8 Space
I Introduction: the Spatiality of Rights
II Housing as Social Control/Housing as Social Transformation
III Mumbai: Housing, Rights, Citizenship, Space
IV Vision Mumbai and the Planning of Social Transformation
V Conclusion: the Boundaries of Spatial Analysis and the Possibilities of the Right to Housing
PART III POSSIBILITIES
9 Possibilities, Politics, Law
I The Right to Housing: Illustrating Ambivalence in Human Rights for Social Transformation
II Institutional Mythologies and the Hidden Politics of Human Rights
III The Ownership of Rights
IV Conclusion: Human Rights Utopia and Fundamental Human Equality