A/HRC/RES/55/11 Noting that new and emerging digital technologies, including assistive technologies and artificial intelligence, can contribute to the full realization of the right to housing, including by improving disaster risk management, facilitating in-home, residential and other community support services, and improving accessibility of the housing environment, while also recognizing the need for appropriate human rights safeguards to mitigate its risks, Emphasizing the importance of housing to the dignity and equal rights of persons with disabilities, who often face widespread and severe forms of discrimination in virtually all aspects of housing, from the inaccessible design of buildings to barriers, to finance or discriminatory tenant selection and various forms of stigmatization, and acknowledging in particular that persons with disabilities are at a greater risk of violence within and outside of their homes simply because of their disability, Concerned at the mounting crisis of housing unaffordability, in particular in urban contexts, and its disproportionate impact on individuals and groups in vulnerable situations, including persons with disabilities, who are more likely to live in poverty and to have higher housing costs, Expressing concern that persons with disabilities, including persons with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities, are disproportionately experiencing homelessness, which in turn may exacerbate impairments and additional barriers linked to stigma and isolation, Expressing deep concern at the destruction of housing, arbitrary displacements and forced evictions in armed conflicts, and at the number and scale of disasters caused by natural or man-made hazards and their negative impact on the full enjoyment of the right to adequate housing, and in this regard affirming the need for the continued implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, Emphasizing that the adverse effects of climate change have a range of negative implications, both direct and indirect, for the effective enjoyment of human rights, inter alia, the right to adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, Deeply concerned that investment in housing has often become primarily a financial instrument solely and exclusively focused on seeking high returns, disconnecting housing from its social function as a place to live in security and dignity, Recognizing that security of tenure enhances the enjoyment of the right to adequate housing and is significant to the enjoyment of many other economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights, and that all persons, including persons with disabilities, should possess a degree of security of tenure that guarantees legal protection against forced eviction, harassment and other threats, Recalling the guiding principles on security of tenure for the urban poor, 1 the basic principles and guidelines on development-based evictions and displacement2 and the Guidelines for the Implementation of the Right to Adequate Housing,3 submitted to the Human Rights Council by previous mandate holders, Noting with appreciation the work of the treaty bodies, in particular the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in the promotion of the rights relating to adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, including all relevant general comments and, for States parties to the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights or the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the examination of individual communications, 1 2 3 See A/HRC/25/54. A/HRC/4/18, annex. A/HRC/43/43. 3