The Right to housing is recognised in the Slovenian Constitution.. According to the Article 78, the State shall create the conditions necessary to enable each citizen to obtain proper housing.
Slovenia has ratified the Revised European Social Charter on 07/05/1999 accepting 95 of the Revised Charter’s 98 paragraphs, including the Article 31 on the right to housing. Slovenia also ratified the Additional Protocol providing for a system of collective complaints on 07/05/1999, but has yet to make a declaration enabling national NGOs to submit complaints.
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At the same time, a definition of an adequate dwelling was introduced in the housing law of the year 1991. An updated definition is established in the new housing law in 2003, wherein an apartment is adequate for living when it satisfies the building standards, has the residence permit and has to have a separate sleeping and living part (except in the cases of a flatlet), has to satisfy the dwelling needs of the owner of tenants in the common housekeeping and satisfy the surface normative under the regulations from the 87th article of this law (that is the article that defines the non for profit apartments).
Moreover, according to the Article 88 of the housing law, the entities responsible for the allocation of housing units for temporary solution for housing needs of socially vulnerable persons are the following: a municipality, the state, a public housing fund or a nonprofit housing organization. When a new housing unit becomes available, the service cross-checks the legitimization for allocation and subsequently rents it to whom the social burden is the heaviest, and under the condition that the size of the unit corresponds to the number of family members.
Collective Complaints:
Few Collective Complaints have been initiated against Slovenia. In 2008 FEANTSA successfully pursued a Collective Complaint arguing on behalf of tenants who were facing eviction due to a discriminatory condition in the country’s procedure for attributed de-nationalized housing units that prevented thousands of tenants from exercising their housing rights (Fédération européenne des Associations nationales travaillant avec les Sans-abri (FEANTSA) v. Slovenia Complaint no. 53/2008).
No Collective Complaints are currently under examination against Slovenia.
Additional Resources:
- National report on Art. 31 (Page 83 to 129)
- Conclusions from the Committee on Social Rights (Page 30 to 38)
