A/HRC/40/61 Contents Page I. Introduction: the housing crisis as a crisis in access to justice ...................................................... 3 II. Access to justice for the right to housing: the normative framework ............................................ 4 A. The right to housing made whole.......................................................................................... 4 B. Key principles of access to justice for the right to housing .................................................. 5 Access to justice for the progressive realization of the right to housing ....................................... 7 A. The standard of reasonableness ............................................................................................ 7 B. Application in domestic law ................................................................................................. 9 Access to justice in the context of evictions and displacement ..................................................... 10 A. Affirming the rule of law and halting forced evictions ......................................................... 10 B. Reconceiving justice in the context of evictions, displacement and relocation .................... 11 V. Access to justice to end criminalization and discrimination based on housing status ................... 12 VI. Ensuring equality in access to justice ............................................................................................ 13 VII. Access to justice beyond courts..................................................................................................... 15 A. National human rights institutions ........................................................................................ 15 B. Business and human rights and the right to a remedy ........................................................... 16 C. Informal and customary justice ............................................................................................. 18 Conclusion and the way forward ................................................................................................... 18 III. IV. VIII. 2