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The Rights to Adequate Housing
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Legal security of tenure: Regardless of the type of tenure, all persons should possess a degree of security of tenure which guarantees legal protection against forced eviction, harassment and other threats;
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Affordability: Personal or household financial costs associated with housing should not threaten or compromise the attainment and satisfaction of other basic needs (for example, food, education, access to health care);
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Habitability: Adequate housing should provide for elements such as adequate space, protection from cold, damp, heat, rain, wind or other threats to health, structural hazards, and disease vectors;
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Availability of services, materials, facilities and infrastructure: Housing is not adequate if its occupants do not have safe drinking water, adequate sanitation, energy for cooking, heating and lighting, sanitation and washing facilities, means of food storage, refuse disposal, etc.;
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Accessibility: Housing is not adequate if the specific needs of disadvantaged and marginalized groups are not taken into account (such as the poor, people facing discrimination; persons with disabilities, victims of natural disasters);
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Location: Adequate housing must allow access to employment options, health-care services, schools, child-care centres and other social facilities and should not be built on polluted sites nor in immediate proximity to pollution sources;
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Cultural adequacy: Adequate housing should respect and take into account the expression of cultural identity and ways of life.
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Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment
Indicators
Here are illustrative examples of indicators to implement and measure elements of the right to adequate housing based on the Human Rights Indicators framework developed by OHCHR:
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“Participatory enumerations” is a surveying method used to gain better knowledge of the needs and priorities of urban poor communities
Count me in, Surveying for tenure security (2010)
Principal
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Standards
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Justiability
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Mechanisms
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Indicators
Issues
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Forced Evictions
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Displacement
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Homelessness
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Poverty
Concerned Groups
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Women
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Indigenous peoples
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Migrants
International Standards
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List of international standards
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International Instrument on Housing Rights
Jusitiability
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Report of Special Repporteur on Adequate Housing (A/63/275), Part IV