The Right to Adequate Housing Toolkit

• Legal security of tenure: Regardless of the type of
  tenure, all persons should possess a degree of security of tenure which
  guarantees legal protection against forced eviction, harassment and
  other threats;

• Affordability: Personal or household financial
  costs associated with housing should not threaten or compromise the
  attainment and satisfaction of other basic needs (for example, food,
  education, access to health care);

• Habitability: Adequate housing should provide for
  elements such as adequate space, protection from cold, damp, heat, rain,
  wind or other threats to health, structural hazards, and disease
  vectors;

• Availability of services, materials, facilities and infrastructure:
  Housing is not adequate if its occupants do not have safe drinking
  water, adequate sanitation, energy for cooking, heating and lighting,
  sanitation and washing facilities, means of food storage, refuse
  disposal, etc.;

• Accessibility: Housing is not adequate if the
  specific needs of disadvantaged and marginalized groups are not taken
  into account (such as the poor, people facing discrimination; persons
  with disabilities, victims of natural disasters);

• Location: Adequate housing must allow access to
  employment options, health-care services, schools, child-care centres
  and other social facilities and should not be built on polluted sites
  nor in immediate proximity to pollution sources;

• Cultural adequacy: Adequate housing should respect and take into account the expression of cultural identity and ways of life.

• Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment n°4
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Here are illustrative examples of indicators to implement and measure elements of the right to adequate housing based on the Human Rights Indicators framework developed by OHCHR:

• Adequate housing
• Forced evictions
• Homelessness

• Monitoring housing rights (2003)

• “Participatory enumerations” is a surveying method used to gain
  better knowledge of the needs and priorities of urban poor communities
  Count me in, Surveying for tenure security (2010)

• Monitoring Security of Tenure in cities (2011)

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