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issues, like evictions, living conditions and homelessness. The data must be
disaggregated, notably by age, gender, disability and ethnic and religious origin. That
information should be made public and serve as a basis for policy design and
monitoring in compliance with human rights law;
(f)
Ensure timely, adequate compensation or resettlement and/or alternative
housing for persons who are affected by natural disasters, with genuine consultation
and participation of the individuals and communities affected;
(g)
Enact legislation to curb all forms and practices of de facto housing
discrimination against any individuals or groups, in particular religious and ethnic
minorities, women, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, internal migrants and
manual scavengers in relation to their right to housing. Enhance monitoring and
protection against discrimination in relation to rental accommodation, access to
credit, inheritance and ownership. Specific measures must be found to enforce
existing legislation, including in villages and panchayati;
(h)
Ensure that all residents of informal settlements have access to the
Housing for All scheme. Provide assistance with down payments for those unable to
afford the scheme;
(i)
Allocate resources for the Smart Cities Mission in order to provide
housing in those cities where there are the greatest housing needs and where the most
marginalized and excluded would most benefit;
(j)
In order to ensure the right to adequate housing and to curb rising
prices due to speculation in real estate markets, particularly in metropolitan cities,
governments at all levels must ensure that land stocks for constructing social housing,
including for the economically weaker sections of society, are used immediately for the
purpose for which they were acquired;
(k)
Enhance effective monitoring and coordination to ensure that budget
allocations for housing, sanitation and water provision at all levels of government are
executed in a timely and transparent manner;
(l)
The national right to homestead bill of 2013 should be introduced in
Parliament to provide land for the poor, the landless and those without a homestead
in urban areas. A committee should be established to ensure its compliance with
international human rights law. Schemes and programmes for rural housing should
include the provision of plots of land, not only construction grants, in order to ensure
that the most deprived and poor landless individuals can adequately ensure their right
to housing and to a livelihood;
(m) In keeping with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights:
Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework,
private entities should be regulated and measures put in place to ensure that they are
monitored and held accountable, including with respect to speculation of land and
housing, land grabbing, rentals, forced displacement and forced evictions both in
urban and rural areas;
(n)
Courts must interpret the right to life and equality in a manner that
gives effect to and is consistent with economic, social and cultural rights provided for
in international human rights law. When applicable, commissioners should be
appointed, as in the case of the right to food, by the Supreme Court, with a view to
ensuring monitoring, redress and implementation of the right to housing over time;
(o)
Submit the pending report to the Committee on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights and ensure implementation of the recommendations relating to
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