Quelques remarques sur le droit au logement en tant qu’objet d’obligations faites aux Etats dans le système de la Charte sociale européenne

At the European regional level, the right to housing, intended as a human right, is recognised and guaranteed by the Revised European Social Charter (RESC, 1996). Art. 31 of the RESC places a number of positive obligations on European States having accepted it, concerning the adoption of measures aimed at promoting access to housing of an adequate standard, preventing and reducing homelessness, and making the price of housing accessible to those without adequate resources. The present article draws the attention to the implementing practice of the RESC as an instrument for the protection and realization of the right to housing in Europe, particularly focusing on the case law of the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR, the Charter supervisory body), as it emerges from the so-called collective complaints procedure, which enables social partners and nongovernmental organisations to apply to the ECSR directly for it to rule on possible violations of the Charter in the country concerned.