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these are [incomplete list of] organizations whose advocacy particularly centers on "Right to housing" concepts. A wide variety of housing and social justice groups refer to the concepts to some degree. 

== Cities for Adequate Housing ==

from Cities for Adequate Housing's "[https://citiesforhousing.org/ Municipalist Declaration of Local Governments for the Right to Housing and the Right to the City]."  New York, 16th July 2018: 

''Building on the milestones of the '''New Urban Agenda of Habitat III''' (Quito, 2016) and the momentum of “'''The Shift'''”, a global initiative on the right to housing, the signatory cities below take part in this High-Level Political Forum of the United Nations to follow up on Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG11: “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable” by 2030), with the support of UCLG (United Cities and Local Governments), the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and '''Leilani Farha''', UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing.''

''We, the local governments, are the public officials who are most sensitive to the everyday needs of our citizens. In the contemporary world, lack of national and state funding, market deregulation, growing power of global corporations, and increasing competition for scarce real estate often become a burden on our neighbourhoods, causing serious distortions in their social fabric, and putting the goal of ensuring equitable, inclusive, and just cities at risk. We, the local governments strongly believe that all people should have actual access to “adequate housing”, understood by the United Nations as the one that has the correct “affordability”, “legal security of tenure”, “habitability”, “availability of services, materials, facilities and infrastructure”“accessibility”, “location” and “cultural adequacy”. Nevertheless, real estate speculation, high cost housing, inadequate regulation, socio-spatial segregation, insecurity of tenure, substandard housing, homelessness, urban sprawl or informal urban enlargements without requisite facilities or infrastructure, are growing phenomena that threaten the equity and sustainability of our cities. Given this situation, local governments cannot stay on the sidelines, and need to take a central role. For all these reasons, we call for the following actions.''

#'''''More powers to better regulate the real estate market''' We demand more legal and fiscal powers to regulate the real estate market in order to fight against speculation and guarantee the social function of the city.''

#'''''More funds to improve our public housing stocks''' We demand more resources and commit increased investment to strengthen the public housing rental stock in all of our neighbourhoods.''

#'''''More tools to co-produce public-private community-driven alternative housing''' We are committed to boosting mixed residential solutions, which are neither solely government-driven nor purely based on commercial gain.''

#'''''An urban planning that combines adequate housing with quality, inclusive and sustainable neighbourhoods''' We are committed to planning mixed, compact and polycentric cities where housing benefits from a balanced context and contributes to the social, economic and environmental sustainability of the urban fabric.''

#'''''A municipalist cooperation in residential strategies''' We want to enhance cooperation and solidarity within city networks that defend affordable housing and equitable, just, and inclusive cities by boosting long-term strategies on a metropolitan scale.''

''[https://citiesforhousing.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CFH_Declaration_ENG.pdf Download the full text].''

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== National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty ==

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= See also: =

*[[Right_to_the_city]]

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*Bratt, Rachel G., Michael E. Stone, and Chester Hartman, editors. ''A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda''. Temple University Press, 2006.  [http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1301_reg.html Overview, contents, and Introduction].  [https://books.google.com/books?id=nTXmtaLK0OUC&pg=PA338#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books].  [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_E90AYG2sPDTExSX1JDUVZqU0U PDF]. [https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_E90AYG2sPDdEtDSndPOUVxZXM ePub].

*Carter, Dennis. "[https://rewire.news/article/2019/02/20/what-housing-as-a-human-right-bill-looks-like/ Here’s What a ‘Housing as a Human Right’ Bill Looks Like]." ''Rewire News, ''Feb 20, 2019, 5:23pm. [https://rewire.news/article/2019/02/20/what-housing-as-a-human-right-bill-looks-like/ https://rewire.news/article/2019/02/20/what-housing-as-a-human-right-bill-looks-like/].

*Cities for Adequate Housing. "[https://citiesforhousing.org/ Municipalist Declaration of Local Governments for the Right to Housing and the Right to the City]."  New York, 16th July 2018. https://citiesforhousing.org/. [https://citiesforhousing.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CFH_Declaration_ENG.pdf Full text].

*Craig, Tim. "[https://beta.washingtonpost.com/national/austin-eases-rules-for-sleeping-on-street--and-tests-tolerance-levels/2019/08/21/f67efb20-c1df-11e9-9986-1fb3e4397be4_story.html?noredirect=on Should people have a right to sleep on city streets? Texas joins national battle over urban homeless crisis.]"  ''Washington Post, ''22 August 2019. [https://beta.washingtonpost.com/national/austin-eases-rules-for-sleeping-on-street--and-tests-tolerance-levels/2019/08/21/f67efb20-c1df-11e9-9986-1fb3e4397be4_story.html?noredirect=on https://beta.washingtonpost.com/national/austin-eases-rules-for-sleeping-on-street--and-tests-tolerance-levels/2019/08/21/f67efb20-c1df-11e9-9986-1fb3e4397be4_story.html].

*Ellickson, Robert C. [1992] "[http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/459 The Untenable Case for an Unconditional Right to Shelter]."  15 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Policy 17 1992.  Available as Faculty Scholarship Series. Paper 459: [http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/459 http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/459].

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*United Nations [http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/housing/ Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living], UN

**[http://www.internal-displacement.org/8025708F004BE3B1/(httpInfoFiles)/C90EE08CC6A733ABC12574C00049C81D/$file/G0810545.pdf Report to UN HRC, 2008. A/HRC/7/16]

**[http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/13session/A-HRC-13-20.pdf REport to UN HRC, 2009. A/HRC/13/20]

**[http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/13session/A-HRC-13-20.pdf REport to UN HRC, 2009. A/HRC/13/20]

*United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). "[https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/HousingRightsen.pdf Housing Rights Legislation: Review of International and National Legal Instruments]." Nairobi, 2002. [https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/HousingRightsen.pdf https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/HousingRightsen.pdf].