ABSTRACT
This chapter explains what role is there for an essentially non-legal concept in the bigger picture of realizing the right to housing and is it first of all recommendable to use a vague and interdisciplinary term like human dignity for the protection of fundamental rights. The chapter also presents what does it traditionally mean and how has it been used in a legal context and how human rights law have given human dignity multiple functions. It looks at the added value as well as the deficiencies of the concept and proposes what in the people opinion are the essential aspects of what they by then call social dignity that should have to be taken into account in the pursuit of a more effective right to housing. It is on the basis of this interpretation that the chapter also presents at a couple of housing-related issues and how the concept could be a guiding principle.
