Mobilising anti-discrimination law to defend housing rights in Europe: Socioeconomic disadvantage and the right to housing

Benito Sanchez, Juan Carlos
(2017) International Conference on Legal Aspects of Housing ‘Ensuring the effective exercise of the right to housing in the EU’ — Location: Tarragona (Spain) (27.April.2017)

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This paper focuses on socioeconomic disadvantage as a significant source of inequality in the realm of housing. Taking into account international and European human rights law, as well as selected domestic systems, it will show how anti-discrimination law has a significant role to play in addressing socioeconomic inequalities in the field of housing. Part I will explore the notion of non-discrimination on the grounds of socioeconomic status. Part II will examine two specific mechanisms to incorporate socioeconomic considerations into anti-discrimination legislation: public sector equality duties, and the inclusion of socioeconomic disadvantage as a prohibited ground of discrimination. Part III brings the discussion further into the context of housing. The paper concludes by suggesting that anti-discrimination law can be mobilised to secure the effective exercise of the right to housing by socioeconomically disadvantaged groups.
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Benito Sanchez, J. C. (2017). Mobilising anti-discrimination law to defend housing rights in Europe: Socioeconomic disadvantage and the right to housing. International Conference on Legal Aspects of Housing ‘Ensuring the effective exercise of the right to housing in the EU’, Tarragona (Spain). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/179922