TY - JOUR AU - Moons, Nico AU - Hubeau, Bernard PY - 2014/10/03 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Conceptual and Practical Concerns for the Effectiveness of the Right to Housing JF - Oñati Socio-Legal Series JA - Oñati Socio-Legal Series VL - 6 IS - 3 SE - Individual Articles DO - UR - https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/461 SP - 656-675 AB - <p>Anno 2014, it is rather an exception to the&nbsp;rule that a state does not have a set of fundamental social rights incorporated into its constitution. Unfortunately however, this does not mean by far that social rights have consistently been given the same kind of treatment as other constitutional rights. A large discrepancy between the wide recognition of these rights in theory on the one hand and its influence in practice on particularly the more disadvantaged people in society is still very noticeable. The apparent failure to adequately implement fundamental social rights and their limited practical impact raise questions regarding their effectiveness. Evidently, the same applies with specific regard to the right to housing. Here, the question has been raised whether the right to housing ought to be approached as a so called obligation of result. To what extent might such a modification enhance the practical significance of such a right?</p> <p>A&ntilde;o 2014, se puede considerar una excepci&oacute;n a la regla de que un Estado no tiene una serie de derechos sociales fundamentales incorporados en su constituci&oacute;n. Sin embargo, lamentablemente, esto no quiere decir en absoluto que a los derechos sociales se les haya dado de forma consistente el mismo tratamiento que a otros derechos constitucionales. Todav&iacute;a se aprecia una amplia discrepancia entre el amplio reconocimiento de estos derechos en la teor&iacute;a, por un lado, y su influencia en la pr&aacute;ctica, en particular entre las personas m&aacute;s desfavorecidas de la sociedad. El aparente fracaso para implementar adecuadamente los derechos sociales fundamentales y su impacto limitado en la pr&aacute;ctica plantean cuestiones en cuanto a su eficacia. Evidentemente, ocurre lo mismo en lo que respecta concretamente al derecho a la vivienda. Aqu&iacute;, se plantea la cuesti&oacute;n de si el derecho a la vivienda debe ser abordada como una denominada compromiso de resultado. &iquest;En qu&eacute; medida podr&iacute;a esta modificaci&oacute;n fomentar la importancia pr&aacute;ctica de ese derecho?</p> <p><strong>DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN</strong>: <a href="http://ssrn.com/abstract=2734717" target="_blank">http://ssrn.com/abstract=2734717</a></p> ER -