The impact of housing finance policies on the right to adequate housing of those living in poverty 2012, para. 71g
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[The Special Rapporteur calls for a paradigm shift from housing policies based on the financialization of housing to a human rights-based approach to housing policies. In this context, she makes the following recommendations:] States should promote alternatives to housing policies based on private credit and ownership, including through the development of a private rental sector. Adequate legal, financial and tax conditions should be created in order to encourage the supply of social rental housing as well as other forms of collective and individual tenure;
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living
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Special Procedures' report
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Economic Rights
Governance & Rule of Law
Social & Cultural Rights
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Year
2012
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Conclusion / Recommendation
Reference
SR Housing, Report to the UNGA (2012), A/67/286, para. 71g.