Guiding Principles on security of tenure for the urban poor 2014, para. 38
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- Precarious housing structures in hazard-prone areas, such as along fault lines, on steep slopes or on river banks should be prioritized for incremental upgrading for current inhabitants, whenever feasible. States should explore technical options, like the construction of embankments and retaining walls, to transform the area into a safe location for housing. For example, a participatory project in the Lower Lempa River Valley in El Salvador led to the construction of safer houses with relocation of people living in particularly hazardous areas, improved woodland management as a natural buffer to floods, and a risk management and early-warning system. States should raise awareness among inhabitants of hazardous areas and help them to improve their living environment.
- 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)
- Environment
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Housing, Report to the HRC (2014), A/HRC/25/54, para. 38.
- Paragraph number
- 38
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