A/HRC/RES/55/11 (m) To take all measures necessary to eliminate legislation that criminalizes homelessness, and to take positive measures with a view to prevent and eliminate homelessness by adopting and implementing laws, administrative orders, cross-sectional strategies and programmes at all levels that are, among others, gender-, age- and disabilityresponsive and compliant with international human rights law; (n) To ensure that persons with disabilities have access to community support services, including personal assistance, necessary to support living and inclusion in the community, and to ensure that access to adequate housing, appropriate and affordable services and appropriately trained support for persons with disabilities is provided in the community, with a view to achieving deinstitutionalization; (o) To take measures to reduce spatial segregation and isolation or social exclusion of persons with disabilities from the community by ensuring the right of persons with disabilities to live independently within the community with persons of their choice; (p) To design and implement data collection on the housing circumstances of persons with disabilities, disaggregated by relevant characteristics, such as race, ethnicity, disability, age and sex; (q) To closely consult with and actively involve persons with disabilities and their representative organizations in all areas of housing policy and design; (r) To undertake and promote measures so that new objects, building environments, facilities, goods and products and services, including housing, are designed in a way that makes them accessible for persons with disabilities, consistent with the principles of universal design; (s) To adopt accessibility requirements that apply to new housing and implement a clear time frame for ensuring accessibility within existing housing stock; (t) To ensure that local governments implement and adhere to the right to adequate housing in all municipal action, including when carrying out urban planning, zoning, planning of transportation and production and maintenance of housing, taking into account accessibility requirements, and seek to provide greater clarity in the distribution of responsibilities and strengthen institutional cooperation and coordination between national and local governments; (u) To ensure that construction companies work in accordance with building regulations and in compliance with safety and accessibility standards; (v) To take appropriate measures to ensure that business enterprises, including financial entities, in the housing sector meet their responsibility to respect human rights in accordance with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; (w) To ensure that reasonable accommodation measures for persons with disabilities are provided in relation to the right of adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living in order to promote equality and eliminate discrimination; 2. Also calls upon States to ensure equality and non-discrimination when fulfilling the right to adequate housing, and to strive for the full realization of the right to adequate housing for all, including by considering: (a) Prohibiting all forms of discrimination, including against persons with disabilities, in the context of the right to adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living by public and private entities, including public and private housing and credit providers and home value appraisers, and through accessible technology platforms for credit scoring, tenant screening and mortgage loan applicants, and ensuring that housing and anti-discrimination legislation provides sufficiently dissuasive fines or other dissuasive sanctions for housing discrimination and leads to diverse, inclusive communities; (b) Regularly monitoring and identifying any forms of systemic discrimination, including against persons with disabilities, in relation to housing, including spatial segregation, and adopting special, positive measures and policies at the local, national and 5