Government of the Republic of South Africa v Grootboom was a 2000 decision of the Constitutional Court of South Africa holding that the state's constitutional duty to progressively realize the right of access to adequate housing required a reasonable program that made some provision for people in desperate need, and that a housing program with no provision at all for those with no access to land or shelter and living in intolerable conditions was not reasonable. It was the first case in which the Constitutional Court gave concrete legal content to the Constitution's socioeconomic rights, and it became a foundational precedent for how courts elsewhere assess the reasonableness of state programs implementing such rights.
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