A right to adequate housing: Translating 'political' rhetoric into legislation

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Copley, Julie. 2023. "A right to adequate housing: Translating 'political' rhetoric into legislation." Australian Property Law Journal. 31 (2), pp. 71-98.
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A right to adequate housing: Translating 'political' rhetoric into legislation

ERA Journal ID37188
Article CategoryArticle
AuthorsCopley, Julie
Journal TitleAustralian Property Law Journal
Journal Citation31 (2), pp. 71-98
Number of Pages28
Year2023
PublisherLexisNexis Butterworths
Place of PublicationAustralia
ISSN1038-5959
Web Address (URL)https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/agispt.20240109101663
Abstract

In Australia, calls for a statutory right to adequate housing predate the enactment of the current Australian human rights statutes, with recent recommendations made by a Victorian parliamentary committee and the Australian Human Rights Commission. In effect, the recommendations are for legislative processes translating the politics of homelessness and housing inadequacy, in an ongoing way, into practical statutory measures. To build a framework to inform and assist the legislative processes, this article analyses contemporary property theory, including about a right to adequate housing, and legal, political and constitutional theory directed to the positivisation of human rights. As the core of a right to housing is a place to live in security, peace and dignity, an essential component of a framework will be the functioning in Australian jurisdictions of human dignity, the source from which all other human rights are derived.

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ANZSRC Field of Research 2020440707. Housing policy
480703. Domestic human rights law
480504. Legal institutions (incl. courts and justice systems)
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