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increasingly a tool for investment and the enrichment of large real estate investors, while
more and more people struggle to find affordable housing in cities.
Large-scale development projects, expansion of agribusiness, logging, natural
conservation initiatives and climate change mitigation measures are increasingly resulting in
forced evictions and displacements. Insecure land tenure remains a major challenge for the
realization of the right to adequate housing for too many people, especially those relying on
customary tenure systems in rural areas.
Moreover, the climate crisis has increased the ferocity of natural disasters and resulted
in climate-induced conflict and displacement. Conflict, disaster, natural hazards and
development-induced displacement and forced evictions have sharply increased.
Based on an analysis of major trends, the Special Rapporteur identifies seven
substantive priorities, while offering clarifications of key definitions of terms, such as
“standard of living”.
The Special Rapporteur also outlines how he would like to contribute to protecting
the right to adequate housing in collaboration with States, international organizations and
United Nations agencies, local governments, parliamentarians, the judiciary, national human
rights institutions, the business community, civil society and housing rights defenders.
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