The Right to Housing as a Right to Adequate Housing

Schmid* The Right to Housing as a Right to Adequate Housing Options Reviewing the Reasonableness of National Housing Policies in the Field of Alternative and Intermediate Tenures “We commit ourselves to stimulating the supply of a variety of adequate housing options that are safe, affordable and accessible for members of different income groups of society (... [...] The Social Right to Housing at various Levels of Governance The right to housing which forms part of the so-called social, economic and cul- tural human rights, is anchored in a wide range of international, European, na- tional and sometimes regional legal instruments.9 At the level of international law, a general right to housing was included already in the 1948 Universal De- claration of Human R. [...] Though this Convention does not contain a general right to housing, the activist European Court of Human Rights has in the last decades gradually and creatively extended several of its provisions to a wide range of housing problems, including Article 8, the right to family and private life and protection of the home; Article 6, the right to due process in the case of eviction; Article 3, the right. [...] The Right to Housing as a Right to Adequate Housing Options 161 Human Rights11 extends to many fields of the right of housing, including adequate and affordable housing, the protection against eviction, the status of informal settlements, housing rights of vulnerable groups such as Sinti and Roma etc.12 In contrast, the “right to housing acquis” of EU law is smaller but growing: Whereas housing is. [...] The Formation and Judicial Review of a Right to Adequate Housing Options As stated above, the traditional approach to the right of housing, which focuses on the protection of individual housing rights of vulnerable individuals and groups, is not sufficient to address modern mainstream housing problems.