Foreword / Nelson Mandela -- Preface / Philip Alston -- Ch. 1. Where It Matters Most: Making International Housing Rights Meaningful at the National Level / Scott Leckie -- Ch. 2. History, Pre-History and the Right to Housing in International Law / Matthew Craven -- Asia and the Pacific -- Ch. 3. The Right to Adequate Housing in the Philippines / Jose Mendoza -- Ch. 4. The Right to Housing in Australia / AnneMarie Devereux -- The Americas -- Ch. 5. The Right to Adequate Housing in Canada / Bruce Porter -- Ch. 6. The Case for a Right to Housing in the United States / Chester Hartman -- Ch. 7. Housing Rights in Honduras: Plenty of Rights. No Housing / Grahame Russell -- Ch. 8. Housing Rights in Brazil / Nelson Saule Junior and Maria Elena Rodriguez -- Africa -- Ch. 9. Justiciability of the Right to Housing -- the South African Experience / Geoff Budlender -- Ch. 10. The Kenyan Perspective on Housing Rights / Christine Bodewes and Ndaise Kwinga -- Europe -- Ch. 11. Protection of the Right to Housing in Finland / Martin Scheinin -- Ch. 12. Housing Rights in Malta / Ugo Mifsud-Bonnici -- Ch. 13. Housing Rights in Ireland / Padraic Kenna -- Annex 1. Legal Sources of Housing Rights -- Annex 2. Selected Housing Rights Bibliography