Right to housing

The right to housing is a human right of the second generation ( economic, social and cultural rights). His basis in international law are Article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ( ICESCR), Article 16 of the European Social Charter of 16 December 1966 and Article 31 of the revised European Social Charter. Implicitly, the right to housing by the African Charter of Human Rights and the rights of peoples is given. The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights According to include aspects of the right to housing under the ICESCR also: legal protection of the workplace; the availability of services, materials, facilities and infrastructure; affordability; habitability; Accessibility, location and cultural adequacy.

In Germany, the Weimar Constitution, formulated in the summer of 1919, in Article 155 for the first time the state's goal " every German a healthy home " to secure.

As a policy objective, the right to housing in 1944 by Franklin D. Roosevelt was formulated in his speech on the Second Bill of Rights.