Tag: right to housing
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Constitutional Silence, Political Noise: The Case for Strong Federal Involvement in Housing Policy in Canada
—Dr. Alexandra Flynn, Associate Professor and Director, Housing Research Collaborative; Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] Canada’s housing crisis is deepening, and so too is the confusion about which level of government is responsible…
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The Legislative Imposition of Positive Obligations to Fulfil the Right to Housing: The Compulsory Lease of Vacant Dwellings in Portugal
—Teresa Violante, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2023 columnists, see here.] Facing increasing social contestation due to the escalating inflationary pressure and the detrimental consequences that several years of austerity and budgetary restrictions have produced on the welfare state, the Portuguese Government presented an…