Toward a right to housing for Australia
Reframing affordability debates through article 11(1) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12517954 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessie Hohmann (0000-0003-3086-6772, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 292-307 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Human Rights (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1323-238X • E-ISSN: 2573-573X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1323238x.2020.1813378 |
| OpenAlex | W3111060741 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 26 |
This paper argues that engaging the content of, and state obligations for, the right to housing under Article 11(1) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) can contribute to an important shift in how we think about, and mobilise around, housing affordability issues in Australia. Against a background of a widely acknowledged housing affordability crisis, the paper argues that debates over affordability unfold in particular ways in Australia, and the right to housing shows the paradoxes and problems of the housing affordability picture in a new light. The article examines three facets of housing affordability: affordability for the vulnerable or disadvantaged; housing as wealth and savings; and housing financialisation for speculation and investment. It argues that the right to housing as enshrined in ICESCR can be used as a foundation on which to build a new discourse around the right to housing in Australia; to hold governments’ actions up against an international standard; and to imagine and guide creative policy proposals
Affordable housing · Cognitive reframing · Covenant · Cultural rights · Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economics · Human rights · International human rights law · Investment (military · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law
Principles of public international law
The Financialization of Housing
The Right to Housing in Law and Society
The Right to Housing
Redefining Welfare
Reflections on state obligations with respect to economic, social and cultural rights in international human rights law
Law and poverty in Australia
Neoliberal welfare reform and ‘rights’ compliance under Australian social security law
Housing, homelessness and human rights
One Strike, Three Strikes
The Road Home
Without Sex
The ‘Politics’ of Australian Housing
Are Governments Really Interested in Fixing the Housing Problem? Policy Capture and Busy Work in Australia
Defining and measuring housing affordability using the Minimum Income Standard
A reverse form of welfarism
Property speculation, global capital, urban planning and financialisation
Bounded political contestation
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |