Centrality of the right to adequate housing for the development and implementation of the New Urban Agenda to be adopted at Habitat III in October 2016 2015, para. 20
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The right to housing demands a people-centred approach. It takes as its starting point the capacities of those who are homeless or living in inadequate housing to become both central agents and prioritized stakeholders of housing policy and programmes. As such these groups must be meaningfully consulted, have access to relevant information in a timely fashion and be included in planning processes and the design and implementation of policies. The right to housing engenders new social, economic and political relationships through which rights holders may be empowered to define and claim their rights and effect social and political change necessary for their realization.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Equality & Inclusion
Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
All
Year
2015
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Housing, Report to the UNGA (2015), A/70/270, para. 20.