Right to housing

The aspect of the right to housing under ICESCR include: availability of services, infrastructure, material and facilities; legal security of tenure; habitability; accessibility; affordability; location and cultural adequacy.

This was clarified in the 1991 General Comment no 4 on Adequate Housing by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

[9] According to UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, aspects of right to housing under ICESCR include: legal security of tenure; availability of services, materials, facilities and infrastructure; affordability; habitability; accessibility; location and cultural adequacy.

The right to adequate housing was a main theme in the Istanbul Agreement and Habitat Agenda.

This includes a rule to "promote, protect and ensure the full and progressive realisation of the right to adequate housing" in Paragraph 61.

[16] New York City also recognizes a right to emergency shelter, established in the 1981 consent decree for Callahan v.

[20] In 2014, WHO and UNICEF stated that 69% of the urban population of Nigeria were living in 'slums' without basic amenities like potable water, sanitation services, electricity, garbage collection, and paved roads.

Rent control or caps are not given attention in addition to landlord–tenant relations, with regulation laws poorly enforced.