Losing your home : assessing the impact of eviction / by the United Nations Housing Rights Programme ; [main author: Jean du Plessis ; contribitors: Claudio Acioly Jr. ... [et al.] ; English editor: Roman Rollnick]. - Nairobi, Kenya : United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), c2011. - x, 100 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.

"A collaborative initiative between the United Nations Human Settlements Programme and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights." Author, contributors, and editor's statement from p. ii. "HS Number: HS/097/11E"--P. [2] of cover. "The practive of forcibly evicting people from their homes and settlements is a growing global phenomenon and represents a crude violation of one of the most elementary principles of right to adequate housing as defined in the Habitat Agenda and international instruments"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

9789211323887 9211323886


United Nations Housing Rights Programme--Evaluation.


Home ownership.
Housing policy.
Eviction.
Homeowners--Civil rights.

HD7287.8 / .L67 2011