A perspective on local government's role in realising the right to housing and the answer of the Grootboom judgment

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dc.contributor.authorde Visser, Jaap
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-30T20:08:22Z
dc.date.available2014-09-30T20:08:22Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the responsibilities of the three spheres of government with regard to implementing the right of access to housing and, in particular, the responsibility of local government. Local authorities are obliged, just as much as national and provincial government, to protect basic rights and advance their realisation. When it comes to implementing an economic, social or cultural right, however, local government is bound by its constitutional mandate. The Constitution, the author argues, does not place the primary obligation to implement the right to housing on local government. However, in Government of the Republic of South Africa v Grootboom the Constitutional Court held that that access to land cannot be separated from access to housing or access to basic services, such as water and sewage removal. Local government thus plays a key part in fulfilling those ancillary aspects of the right of access to housing.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationde Visser, J. (2004). A perspective on local government's role in realising the right to housing and the answer of the Grootboom judgment. Law, Democracy & Development, 8(2): 201 -215en_US
dc.identifier.issn2077-4907
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/1249
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights© 2004 de Visser; licensee University of the Western Cape. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectLocal governmenten_US
dc.subjectRight to housing
dc.subjectGrootboom judgment
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.subjectGovernment
dc.titleA perspective on local government's role in realising the right to housing and the answer of the Grootboom judgmenten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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