HARVARD CIVIL RIGHTS-CIVIL LIBERTIES LAW REVIEW

False Hope or a Realizable Right? The Implementation of the Right to Shelter Under the African National Congress' Proposed Bill of Rights for South Africa

This article addresses the domestic implementation of social and economic rights by means of constitutional articulation and entrenchment. "This Note argues that the new South African bill of rights is the appropriate forum for constitutional entrenchment of social rights, particularly the right to shelter." "At the outset, this Note will present South Africa's vital statistics on race,