A/HRC/15/41 R. • Recommend measures to ensure that persons living in extreme poverty have access to a sufficient amount of safe drinking water for personal and domestic use - drinking, personal sanitation, washing of clothes, food preparation and personal and household hygiene - to sustain life and health. • Recall the importance of prioritizing improvements in infrastructure in areas inhabited by persons living in extreme poverty, including improved access to safe drinking water and sanitation facilities. • Recommend organizing large-scale public awareness campaigns promoting and providing information on hygiene.48 Right to adequate housing, security of tenure and protection from forced evictions 79. Persons living in extreme poverty commonly lack adequate housing and security of tenure. They often inhabit land where they are vulnerable to forced eviction without adequate compensation and reparation.49 Persons living in extreme poverty tend to inhabit unsafe areas, and are disproportionately exposed to natural disasters or environmental hazards, with life-threatening consequences. In some situations, communities are removed by urban planning efforts to areas where there is inadequate access to livelihoods and services, thus increasing their vulnerability. Some particularly vulnerable groups are homeless and live in public areas and/or urban centres. 80. 48 49 A revised version of the draft guiding principles should: • Recall the immediate and progressive obligations of States relating to the right to adequate housing for persons living in extreme poverty, including measures regarding security of tenure; availability of services, material facilities and infrastructure; affordability; habitability; accessibility; location and cultural adequacy. • Recommend adopting due process safeguards against forced eviction and other forms of arbitrary or unlawful interference with people's privacy and home, including land. • Recall that evictions should only occur in exceptional circumstances, and in compliance with national law and international human rights norms and standards. • Recommend ensuring adequate public expenditure and encourage private sector investment in low-income housing and access to urbanized land programmes to reduce the incidence of homelessness, or unassisted and unplanned settlements. • Recommend adopting specific measures to ensure a safe and healthy environment in areas inhabited by persons living in extreme poverty, in particular, protecting these areas from climatic and health hazards. • Recall the importance of prioritizing overall improvements in infrastructure in areas inhabited by persons living in extreme poverty, including all-weather roads and electricity. Human Rights Council resolution 12/8, operative paragraph 4 (f). Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, general comment No. 4 (1991) on the right to adequate housing. 21