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CRAFTING A RIGHT TO HOUSING IN EUROPE: THREE INTERPRETATIONAL WEAKNESSES?
Dr. Jessie HohmannUniversity of Cambridge
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What is the Right to Housing?
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Three Interpretational Weaknesses:
•Lack of Definition or Normative Content
•Overly Procedural and ‘Programmatic’
•Failure to connect to Conditions of Suffering and Deprivation
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1. Lack of Definition or Normative Content
•No definition of the right
•Lack of clarity about:▫ Content of State obligations? ▫ What constitutes a violation?
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2. Overly Procedural and‘Programmatic’ Right
•Procedure not substance
•Undue privileging of State action
•Means at the expense of ends
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3. Failure to Connect to Conditions of Suffering and Deprivation
•An Abstract Right
•Lack of connection with systemic deprivation and discrimination
•Failure to address underlying structural causes of violation
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How Does the Right to Housing in Europe fit this Picture?
•The work of the European Committee on Social Rights provides
▫a meaningful… ▫but partial…
• response to these problems
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1. Definition and Normative Content under the RESC
•Defining the Right
• Adequate housing means:• A dwelling which is
▫ safe from a sanitary and health point of view▫ structurally secure, not overcrowded
• With secure tenure supported by law
(FEANTSA v France)
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•What are States’ Obligations?
• States must Show: ▫ a reasonable timeframe for action▫ measureable progress towards realisation ▫ evidence of financing consistent with State’s maximum
available resources
(Autism Europe)
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•What Constitutes a Violation?
▫Discrimination (ERRC v Italy)▫Denial of Dignity (DCI v Netherlands)▫ ‘Retrogressive’ measures (COHRE v Italy)
▫ ‘Aggravated’ violations (COHRE v Italy)
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2. Procedure v Substance and the Role of the State
•The RESC does not impose an obligation of ‘results’ (ADT v France)
•Enforcement ‘issues’
•Principles of ‘autonomy’ and ‘solidarity’ and the role of the State
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3. Connecting the Right to Suffering and Deprivation
•Specific Attention to:
▫The vulnerable
▫Historical disadvantage
▫Linking the Right to Housing with: social inclusion civil and political rights
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Conclusions:
•The work of the European Committee on Social Rights Shows:
▫The potential to move beyond lasting controversies about the ‘workability’ of the right to housing
▫The enduring role of politics
▫The necessary balance between autonomy and solidarity in the realisation of the right to housing
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Forthcoming December 2012Hart Publishing