Legal Unhousing

Power, Rights, and Housing Precarity

390 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Legal Unhousing exposes the often unseen ways in which legal processes work to remove people from their homes. A growing number of people in Canada face difficulty in finding and keeping adequate, affordable accommodation. Anna Lund and Sarah Buhler have assembled a superb group of scholars to investigate the concept of unhousing across a wide variety of legal fields: residential tenancies, human rights, municipal planning, mortgage enforcement and securitization, Aboriginal law, disability rights, prison administration, and judgment enforcement. Their findings reveal that the law can be a powerful force of expulsion and dispossession. At the same time, contributors offer rich evidence of resistance to legal unhousing. They illuminate how creative legal practices can assert housing as a human right by emphasizing the links between a stable, satisfactory place to live and people's well-being, dignity, and humanity. This compassionate study reinforces a fundamental shared truth: there's no place like home. It emphasizes that law can play a role in ensuring that every person has a home.

• Reihe: Law and Society
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Politik und Staat Politische Kontrolle, Propaganda und Freiheitsrechte Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• ISBN: 9780774873291
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Herausgegeben von: Anna Jane Samis Lund, Sarah Buhler