ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights how that law- and policy-making effort to improve this fundamental right is subjected to many different more sociological elements and how they can impact the effectiveness of housing rights. It is of vital importance for a legislator to take this wide array of influences into account to be able to make impactful decisions that shape, concretize and guarantee the right to housing. The chapter discusses the other influences on human behavior that have to be taken into account when developing new rules or adapting older ones in the realm of the right to housing. Legal instrumentalism considers a piece of legislation to be able to play the role of a social tool that the government can use to achieve certain goals and thereby change society. Semi-autonomous social fields (SASF) are groups of people that share certain rules of conduct and maintain them by way of social control.
