ABSTRACT
Housing is a basic need that everyone should have access to as right to shelter is recognised as part of human rights. This chapter discusses the literature of right to adequate housing as a human right and how that has been reported and implemented all around the world. It discusses the financialisation of housing in the North and South and the devastating consequences of this policy. Even though housing has been seen as a safe and important investment by most of the world, it actually is a right and not a commodity. The Bay Area consists of nine counties starting from Sonoma in the north and Santa Clara in the south and includes cities such as San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose. The chapter discusses the Turkish housing market to give an insight concerning the changes of the housing system over the last decades.
