Incorporating the Right to Housing
News
- Shelter Scotland welcomes Human Rights Bill’s commitment to housing
- Building up to realising the human right to housing in Scotland– a 2021 blog from Shelter Scotland
- Scottish Government must strengthen the rights for people who are homeless– a 2021 round-up from Shelter Scotland on the rights of people who are homeless
Reports
- Housing is a human right– a 2019 report from Shelter Scotland
- COVID-19: Implications for the Human Right to Adequate Housing in Scotland– a 2020 report from the Scottish Human Rights Commission
- Housing Rights in Practice: Lessons learned from Leith– a report on a 2015-19 Scottish Human Rights Commission project using a rights-based approach to empower tenants in Edinburgh to tackle housing problems
- Housing as a Human Right– a report from Scottish Housing Day 2019, setting out a possible vision for housing as a human right in a Scottish context
- Delivering the Right to Housing? Why Scotland Still Needs an ‘Ending Homelessness’ Action Plan– a report from Isobel Anderson at the University of Stirling
- Scotland: Delivering a Right to Housing– a report from Fiona King, published in the Journal of Law and Social Policy
Briefings
- Housing is a human right – but what does this mean in Scotland?– a 2019 briefing from Shelter Scotland on the application of housing as a human right in Scotland
- Right to Housing– a briefing from the Scottish Human Rights Commission on what the right to housing means, as defined by the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Videos
- Human Rights In Practice– a short video from the Scottish Human Rights Commission on their housing rights project in Leith
- The Right to Adequate Housing in Scotland– a video from the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, exploring the methods which could be employed to realise the right to housing
- Housing in Scotland: Evidence for Scottish Government 2021-26– a video from the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, exploring policy ideas which researchers believe are worthy of consideration by the Scottish Government, to realise the right to housing