Urban transformation should be implemented with a perspective enabling to live in an environment compatible with human dignity. Focusing on a human-centered approach, living space should be constructed to enhance the quality of life instead of maximizing the profit. The right to housing is becoming increasingly important within the context of inadequacy, social isolation and discrimination. The right to housing is often used to refer the right to inhabit, however the right to adequate housing and the right to obtain adequate housing should be taken into consideration while defining its scope. The right to housing has a broader meaning than the right to inhabit. Lisbon Treaty finds the origin of the right to housing in that broader meaning. In this context, the state (administration) has three fundamental obligations: 1. Obligation to respect, 2. Obligation to protect, 3. Obligation to fulfill. In order to fully realize the right in question, the government (administration) should use the means and methods compatible with its political agenda and take progressively necessary steps. On the other hand, it is unrealistic to claim that the right to housing obliges the government to "build a house for everyone". The government adopts appropriate administrative, budgetary and legislative measures to fully realize the right to housing for everyone. It is expected from the government to support, encourage, supervise and coordinate rather than to provide