The Impact of the Right to Housing in Times of Crises

Author: Michel Vols; Emma N. Nic Shuibhne; Andrei Quintiá Pastrana
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781035356850
Published In: June 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This book examines the right to adequate housing as a solution to the polycrises of availability, affordability, adequacy and stability in property. Chapters analyse how the right to housing can be measured and what it means for a human right to make a change in domestic settings.

Combining quantitative research and legal scholarship, the book assesses the recognition of the right to housing in international and domestic legislation and case law. The expert contributors compare the impact of housing rights across the globe, including in Ireland, South Africa, Spain and the United Kingdom. This book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into the future of resolving issues of insufficient housing supply, soaring costs and increasing insecurity of tenure.

The Impact of the Right to Housing in Times of Crisis is greatly beneficial to scholars and students of property and human rights law, alongside researchers in law and social sciences. It is also a valuable resource for practitioners and policymakers working in housing.

The influence of the right to housing 1

Michel Vols, Emma Nic Shuibhne and Andrei Quintiá-Pastrana

Making it matter: Understanding the impact of the right to housing 37

Malcolm Langford

The impact of the right to adequate housing and the need for reliable structural indicators: First things first 62

Michel Vols

Building on Grootboom: Towards a judicial review of the reasonableness of housing law and policy 81

Christoph U. Schmid

Stuck in between law and politics?: Understanding the impact of the right to housing as a right of migrants and refugees in international law 98

Serde Atalay

Vulnerability and the right to housing: Reconceptualizing the vulnerability reasoning of the ECtHR under Article 8 ECHR 117

Matej Sedlár

Assessing the impact of housing rights struggles 145

Mark Jordan

The impact of the “right to housing” in Ireland 166

Padraic Kenna

Foregrounding administrative justice within a right to housing: Justice, rights and vulnerabilities 186

Fiona Donson

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Denial of rights: Ireland’s systemic undermining of ‘culturally appropriate’ accommodation rights for Travellers 209

Samantha Morgan-Williams

11.

The impact of European Union law on the Spanish Housing Act of 2023 and the need and legal possibility of a stronger European role in the field of housing 229

Juli Ponce

12.

The new and first central-state Spanish housing law in democracy: A missed opportunity after years of erratic

multilevel housing policies 250

Héctor Simón Moreno

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Administrative vulnerability challenges the right to housing in Spain 272

Alba Nogueira López