Taster Session: Housing and Human Rights

Registrations for the free taster session close at 5pm on Monday 10th November 2025.

At BIHR, we would like to do more to support public authorities and charities operating in the housing sector to take a human rights-based approach in their work, from public authorities considering the impact of their decisions on our human rights, to charities using the legal language of human rights to challenge decisions that are not rights respecting. As part of this, we will be hosting a free online taster session on housing and human rights to coincide with the launch of the Housing Ombudsman’s human rights guidance. 

In this session, you can hear more about the human rights legal framework under the Human Rights Act, and how it is relevant to the housing sector. We will also be joined by a representative from the Housing Ombudsman Service who will be sharing their human rights guidance, as well as their experiences with using human rights in the service. We will end by sharing our open course on human rights and housing that will be commencing in 2026.