Over-riding principles

Nonretrogression/progressive realization

Applied to Security of Tenure, Freedom from Dispossession

The State’s offices and agents, as well as its guiding policies and legislation, should ensure housing tenure arrangements become more effective at safeguarding tenure and ensure the progressive improvement of all entitlements of the inhabitants’ home. This means that new laws or policies, as well as trends in official behavior and practice should improve in the direction of greater justice for all, and protection for those vulnerable to, or victimized by loss or deterioration of any housing and land rights entitlement. It also means that those same parties should develop greater capacity to deliver relief to those who have lost their home or shelter.