South Africa is one of the countries with a very horrifying history. However, in the dawn of democratic governance, a worldly admirable constitution was brought into picture. The 1993 and 1996 South African Constitutions entrenched an elaborate Bill of Rights with provisions empowering courts to grant “appropriate relief and to make “just and equitable” orders. Happily, the Bill of Rights included justiciable and enforceable socio-economic rights. Amongst them, there is a right of access to adequate housing, for which this work is about. South Africa is viewed as a country with developed jurisprudence in the enforcement of socio-economic rights, hence it has been used as a lesson for Lesotho. Lesotho is still drowning in deep blue seas on enforcement of socio-economic rights either because the constitution itself hinders the progress thereon or because the parliament is unwilling to commit execute to the obligations found in the socio-economic rights filed. This work scrutinizes many jurisdictions and legal systems with a view to draw lively examples that may be followed by Lesotho courts towards enforcing housing rights. Indian and South African jurisprudences epitomize this notion.

Thesis. 1979. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Includes bibliographical references. / M.C.P.

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1982. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH / Bibliography: leaves 119-120. / by Melvyn Colón. / M.C.P.

No abstract available. / Thesis (LL.M.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2013.

In 1995, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) took over the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) on grounds of mismanagement and failure to revitalize a failing housing stock. When the CHA regained independence five years later, in 2000, the agency launched the most extensive redevelopment effort of public housing in the nation’s history. This paper assesses the extent to which the CHA has succeeded in meeting the directive outlined by the Plan for Transformation. It concludes that, despite setbacks in meeting specific goals, the CHA has demonstrated itself to be an effective and accountable housing agency. Nonetheless, the CHA needs to addresses shortcomings in the transparency of management, efficiency of operations, and accessibility of services.

Thesis ( LLM.) --University of Limpopo, 2014 / The Enforcement of the right to housing is one of the greatest challenges facing South African Government. The slow rate of housing delivery has forced society to suspect corruption. Communities from different provinces have demonstrated, through strikes and protest to their local municipalities, to register their discontent about the slow pace of housing delivery. The study focuses more on groups of people who are unable to address their emergency housing needs from their own resources, such as, minors heading households, children without parents, elderly, disabled and unemployed people. The study further discusses the possible remedies to these vulnerable people when their right of access to adequate housing has been infringed, especially during eviction.

This thesis explores the impact of housing rights jurisprudence on Chinese legal and policy frameworks in the housing sector, examines the key related issues, and assesses whether current practices are in line with international best practice. The thesis considers three major questions, viz. 1 What are housing rights? 2 What is the significance of housing rights in the Chinese context? 3 Given the features and nature of housing rights, and China’s transitional societal background, how could housing rights be implemented? By looking at the jurisprudence and jurisprudential development of housing rights in international law and related humanitarian jurisprudence, this thesis proposes a three-layer framework of housing rights, which encompasses property and resource dimensions. While the property dimension requires the state to refrain from interfering in property interest in housing, the resource dimension establishes a set of principles for directing governmental duties in utilizing and redistributing resources. The governments should enable equal and equitable access to housing and housing-related resources, and ensure housing development is a human-centered, sustainability-oriented process. China is a transitional society, where the Constitution shows a trend towards strengthening property rights protection, but institutional constraints on property rights remain. There are also transformative schemes in the housing sector that take the form of land reform and public housing programs. An overview of the housing regime in China identifies three primary limitations: an incoherent legal framework of Chinese takings law related to the property dimension of housing rights; problems with equal and equitable access to land resource as reflected by the urban-rural divide in the land tenure system; and the lack of a sustainability vision in public housing development. It is, therefore, argued that implementing housing rights involves enshrining values and principles related to housing rights in the domestic constitution. This can take the form of reinterpreting the Chinese constitutional property according to the three-layer framework of housing rights. Such a reinterpretation sheds further light on how to resolve the key issues in the current housing regime. This study concludes that housing rights require Chinese constitutional property to strike a balance between protecting existing property-holdings and the transformative schemes in the housing sector. For the property dimension of Chinese constitutional property, housing rights help to construct a coherent jurisprudence for Chinese takings law. The resource dimension of housing rights serves as an assessment tool for the policy framework to guide both the utilization and redistribution of land resources and the development of public housing programs. This facilitates the legal and policy framework in the housing sector to be informed by humanitarian jurisprudence and be in line with international best practice. The pioneering nature of this thesis lies in its exploration of humanitarian jurisprudence which is new to Chinese constitutional reasoning, and the extension of jurisprudential discussion of housing rights to public policy formulation. It is also innovative in proposing the three-layer framework of housing rights. Some of the findings from the discussion of international jurisprudence may be extended not only to the Chinese setting but also to other transitional economies which face similar housing issues and concerns in their policy-making. / published_or_final_version / Real Estate and Construction / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

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Portland student Services, Inc. (PSS), a non-profit student housing corporation, was created under circumstances that were especially arduous. Although thousands of students attending Portland State University in the late 1960s needed housing, state law prohibited the university from providing residential facilities . Many students lived in dilapidated apartment buildings in downtown Portland and faced dislocation from urban renewal programs initiated by the Portland Development Commission. Activists who set out to establish student-run housing also faced hostility from policymakers who resented student-led initiatives in politics and university governance. However, these dedicated student activists aligned with members of the Portland business community and overcame formidable obstacles in establishing permanent student-run housing. In the process, PSS had to contend with difficult political, socio-cultural, and environmental issues. The present study focuses on four major themes: 1) the character of the student housing problem and related legal issues; 2) creation of Portland Student Services; 3) the early operation of PSS; 4) the struggle over construction of off-campus housing.

En fastighetstransaktion är inte bara en av de största ekonomiska handlingar en person företar sig under sin livstid utan även en komplex process, varför lagen med tiden har velat reglera processen. En av de viktiga anledningarna till att området behöver utforskas djupare är för att öka förståelsen för riskerna som de involverade parterna löper. Det är framförallt innehållet i köpekontraktet och tolkningen av detta som orsakar flest problem idag. Och här är fastighetsmäklarens kontraktsskapande och rådgivande roll avgörande för utformningen avavtal och dess innebörd. Återgångsklausuler är förmodligen de villkor i avtalet som orsakatflest tvister, framförallt besiktningsklausuler, vilket även utgör uppsatsens centrala del. Syftetär att jämföra och analysera olika besiktningsklausulers utformning för att kunna redogöra förproblematiken kring formulering av dessa och vad som är viktigt att ta hänsyn till vidutformningen av klausulerna. Uppsatsen visar att det finns flera faktorer som är avgörande för villkorens giltighet, exempelvis en begäran om återgång måste finnas med samt tidsfrist för begäran om återgång. Slutsatsen är att det är av stor vikt att mäklaren inte förlitar sig påschablonartade standardklausuler utan anpassar villkoren till varje enskilt fall. / A real estate transaction is not only one of the largest financial transaction a personundertakes in their lifetime but at the same time a complex process, which is why thelegislator over time has wanted to regulate the process. One of the important reasons that thesubject needs to be explored more deeply is to increase understanding of the risks incurred by the contracting parties. It is above all the content of the purchase contract and interpretation of this that cause the most problems today. Here, the real estate agent’s contract drafting and advisory role is crucial for the design of the agreement and its implications. Contingency clauses are probably the conditions in the contract that cause the largest number of disputes, especially inspection clauses, which also constitute the essay's central part. The aim is to compare and analyze different inspection clauses design to account for the problem of formulation of these and what is important to take into account in the design of the clauses. The paper shows that there are several factors that are crucial for the validity of the clauses, for example a request for return must be included and the time limit of the request for return. The conclusion is that it is of paramount importance that the broker does not trust blindly in standard clauses, but rather adapts them to the case at hand.