<P>This book presents a critical analysis of the concept of ¿adequate housing¿. </P><P></P><P>While the concept of adequate housing is used largely as a normative standard in the protection of housing rights and in the implementation of housing policies, its apparent objectivity and universality have never been questioned by political and legal theory. This book analyses and challenges the understanding of this term in law and politics by investigating its relationship with the idea of ¿home¿. ¿It is necessary to provide them with adequate housing!¿ It is very common to hear this phrase when dealing with housing poverty, especially in relation to migrants, minorities, indigenous and other subaltern groups are concerned. But what does "adequate housing" mean? This book tackles this issue by proposing a critical analysis of this concept and of its use in the development of housing policies addressing the subaltern group <I>par excellence</I> in Europe, Roma. In so doing, it focuses on th