Shelter Scotland publishes new report: Housing is a human right

Shelter Scotland recently published its report on housing as a human right, which you can find here. 

This report provides an overview of housing as a human right in Scotland.

• Chapter 1 explores how important housing is to wellbeing, and therefore why it is a human right.
• Chapter 2 looks at the background to human rights including an explanation of what a human right is, where they are written and defined, and how they can be enforced. It also explains what a human rights-based approach is, using the ‘panel’ principles.
• Chapter 3 answers the question: ‘Is housing a human right?’, clarifying what different treaties and conventions say and defining what an adequate standard of housing is.
• The final chapter, chapter 4, highlights how far the right to adequate housing is achieved in Scotland and where the barriers are to progression, including three case studies where rights are being denied.