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right to housing  

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  • A “right to housing” is a 20th-century ideal set forth in various human rights declarations, laws, pronouncements, and treaties. The first international affirmation to promulgate a right to housing is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on December 10, 1948. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Housing; Right to Housing]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/right_to_housing

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