Architecture & Built Environment · Architectural Theory & Criticism
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Adequate housing is a legal entitlement under international human rights law, not a policy preference, and defines what that entitlement obliges governments to guarantee beyond simply having a roof.
link checked 17 Sept 2026UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Turns the treaty phrase adequate housing into seven enforceable legal criteria — security of tenure, availability of services, affordability, habitability, accessibility, location and cultural adequacy — that states can be held to rather than a vague aspiration.