2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Law, Equality and Housing
In the previous chapter we explored the often complex interaction between the principles of the European Convention on Human Rights, the Human Rights Act 1998 and land law. Here, we build on this discussion by considering the relationship between property interests — especially access to housing — and ‘equalities law’, or the specific statutory protections against unlawful discrimination found in the Equalities Act 2010, which together form a further aspect of the UK’s human rights framework.1