Can we use rights to justify housing provision?

Housing, Theory and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-34

  King, Peter ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Homelessness; Housing rights; Positive and negative rights; Relativism; Situated rights; Universalism

Indexed keywords

HOMELESSNESS; HOUSING PROVISION; SOCIAL HOUSING; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 0033943434     PISSN: 14036096     EISSN: 16512278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/140360900750044755     Document Type: Article

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