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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"adequate housing"”.
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The constitutional right to adequate housing for women in Uganda: problems and prospects
Uganda is one of the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs).1 This status marks it out as exhibiting particularly unpromising indicators on a range of internationally stipulated socio-economic parameters. On the other hand, it has one of the highest population growth rates in the world, which two …
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The right to adequate housing : the need for its justiciability in the Zambian constitution.
Zambia's housing problems cannot be overstated. The current Constitution of Zambia does not recognise the right to adequate housing as a fundamental human right. It provides that the State shall endeavour to provide decent shelter for all but as a directive principle of state policy. In essence, as …
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An evaluation of the right to access to adequate housing in Musina Local Municipal, South Africa - 1994 to date
… African Constitution is the right to access to adequate housing. This right is bound up with other rights in the Constitution, including the right to have their human dignity respected, and the right to water and health care. The right to adequate housing is also comprised in several …
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An analysis of how Zimbabwe’s international legal obligation to achieve the realisation of the right of access to adequate housing, can be enforced in domestic courts as a constitutional right, notwithstanding the absence of a specific constitutional right of every person to have access to adequate housing
… guarantee every person a right to have access to adequate housing. However, the Government of Zimbabwe has an international legal obligation to achieve the progressive realisation of the right to have access to adequate housing by everyone in the country. This obligation is derived from art 11 (1) …
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Shaky structures on solid foundation : the impact of low-income state-subsidised housing on the realisation of the right to adequate housing in post-apartheid South Africa
… examines the impact of state-subsidised housing on the realisation of the right to adequate housing in South Africa. The incremental housing policy adopted in 1994 has its roots in the work of the Urban Foundation and others, who significantly shaped the discussions in the National …
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Housing Rights Implications of Hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Toronto and Vancouver: Towards a Legal Framework that Effectively Protects the Right to Adequate Housing in Canada
… of the 2026 FWC could impact the right to adequate housing in the host provinces/cities of Ontario/Toronto and British Columbia/Vancouver vis-à-vis the already precarious housing situation in these provinces/cities and the anticipated high demand that would be placed on the housing market …
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To sell or not to sell? An analysis of the Tafelberg sale in the light of the right to adequate housing in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
… two civil society organisations working around housing rights and social justice, criticised the sales decision. They called for the property to be used for the development of affordable housing in order to help addressing the lack of affordable housing in central Cape Town. Eventually, they …
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Barriers to the development of affordable housing on well-located land: A qualitative study of planning regulations and by-laws in Cape Town
The notion of adequate housing considers the economic, political, and social components of housing which in Cape Town translates to housing that is well located, affordable, and accessible and creates urban place-making. Both state-subsidised and private development has failed to deliver adequate …
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Analysis of the land administration and housing management systems in view of adequate self-built incremental housing development in Lesotho
… post-reform Land Administration System (LAS) and Housing Management System (HMS) in view of supporting and promoting adequate housing delivery through Self-built Incremental Housing (SBIH) development. SBIH is key to Lesotho's realisation of the Africa Agenda 2063, Sustainable Development Goals …
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Aboriginal Women and Urban Housing: Realizing the Community Benefits
Aboriginal women's housing issues profoundly affect the safety, health, and wellbeing of entire families. For low-income women who occupy marginal positions within the city, there is a particular urgency to access safe and affordable quality housing. In recent decades, evidence has shown that there …
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Who helps women cope? : women's agency in households, families and communities
… social support networks that provide access to adequate housing, secure tenure and sufficient income to sustain households. The social support networks of households, families and communities are investigated in the adjacent but diverse townships of Manenberg and Guguletu - resettlement areas …
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Stakeholder Model Representing Consumer Preferences for Housing in Saudi Arabia
Adequate housing is an important issue for any society; no one can ignore the importance of providing adequate housing for citizens in any country. Purchasing a home is a major investment; it takes a huge part of people’s income. Therefore, it is important to know what in the market is suitable for …
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Low cost housing : an evaluation of its adequacy in relation to the Coloured group in Cape Town
… urban planning outweighs in importance that of housing for the well being of the individual, the family and the community. Yet few questions in urban planning are as little understood, as subject to varying standards and as open to emotionally charged argument as that of what constitutes …
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Housing for married students: a basis for a positive program
… factual basis for formulating a married student housing program should such a course of action be undertaken by either private initiative or by the institute’s authorities. In attempting to accomplish this objective, the author set out to determine the extent of the existing housing problem as …
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A human rights analysis of housing informality in Namibia: Challenges, ambitions, and misses
… allocation in the context of the right to adequate housing. The triangulation depicts tales of nonrecognition, deprivation, dereliction of duties, deterioration, a lack of urgency, and a serious accountability gap. In other words, a total disconnect between the policy efforts and resource …
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Key worker housing : a demand analysis of middle-income workforce housing in eastern Massachusetts
… farther away from their jobs in order to live in adequate housing that is affordable. These long commutes may signal shortage and demand for more housing that the area's workforce can afford in the Boston metro area. This thesis intends to substantiate or debunk some of the above claims using …
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Supportive housing in the age of market fundamentalism : a human rights-based approach to the provision of supportive housing for mentally ill homeless people
Despite its cost-effectiveness, supportive housing is grossly underprovided. In this paper, I build a rights-based strategy for supportive housing advocates, specifically structured around meeting the needs of mentally ill homeless people. A rights-based strategy, emanating from constitutional law, …
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Financing low-income housing in Windhoek, Namibia : assessing the loan scheme of the decentralised Built-Together Program using the Balance Scorecard
… loan funds for the large-scale delivery of adequate housing for low-income groups and to assess the performance of the loan scheme using the concept Balance Scorecard as an assessment tool. The research method employ s interview and survey methods to collect data. Data was collected and …
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Indoor Versus Outdoor Calf Rearing at Three Weaning Ages
… climate of the upper Midwest is such that an adequate housing system design to meet calf needs is hard to define. Previous preliminary studies at South Dakota State University showed some advantage of rearing calves in individual portable outside pens rather than in the conventional enclosed …
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No More Shade: Deforestation and Rural-Urban Migration in Nigeria
… Subsequently, Nigeria is also experiencing a housing crisis within its rapidly growing urban centers; obtaining and keeping adequate housing is becoming more difficult as reproduction rates increase, life expectancies lengthen, and infrastructure development falls behind. Rural-urban migration …
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