Adequate housing is essential for human survival with dignity.
Without a right to housing many other basic rights will be compromised including the right to family life and privacy, the right to freedom of movement, the right to assembly and association, the right to health and the right to development. The right to housing is clearly supported by international law. Further recognition of the right to housing can be found in many other international treaties. Australia's response to the right to housing has been a mixed one to date. On the positive side the right to housing is recognised and supported in such documents as Australia's National Action Plan on Human Rights.