Housing Evictions, Human Rights, And The International Convention On Racial Discrimination

LEISURE, Patrick Casey. Housing Evictions, Human Rights, And The International Convention On Racial Discrimination. Health and Human Rights Journal. Harvard School of Public Health, 2020, Neuveden, November, p. Nestránkováno, 3 pp.

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Original name

Housing Evictions, Human Rights, And The International Convention On Racial Discrimination

Authors

LEISURE, Patrick Casey

Edition

Health and Human Rights Journal, Harvard School of Public Health, 2020

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Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50501 Law

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Faculty of Law

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Abstract

V originále

The COVID-19 pandemic has starkly highlighted the magnitude of the eviction crisis facing many tenants in the United States.[1] Troublingly, recent research shows the eviction crisis largely falls along racial lines. One study illustrated that “people of color, particularly black and latinx people, constitute approximately 80% of people facing eviction.”[2] Another revealed that, controlling for education, Black households are more than twice as likely to be evicted than White households.[3] This research is not only deeply concerning from a societal perspective, it is also illustrative of a wider human rights failure in the United States. This Viewpoint discusses the intersectionality between discrimination, housing, and human rights from the perspective of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).