A/HRC/34/51/Add.1 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 21

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