41 158. The Committee considers that ATD Fourth World’s complaints in respect of Article 16 of the revised Charter, in isolation or taken in conjunction with Article E of the revised Charter, overlap by and large with the complaints in respect of Article 31, that there is therefore no need to examine them again with reference to Article 16. FIFTH PART : ON THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 30 OF THE REVISED CHARTER 159. Article 30 of the revised European Social Charter reads as follows: “Part I: Everyone has the right to protection against poverty and social exclusion.” “Part II: With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to protection against poverty and social exclusion, the Parties undertake: a to take measures within the framework of an overall and co-ordinated approach to promote the effective access of persons who live or risk living in a situation of social exclusion or poverty, as well as their families, to, in particular, employment, housing, training, education, culture and social and medical assistance; b to review these measures with a view to their adaptation if necessary.” A. Arguments of the parties a) ATD Fourth World 160. ATD Fourth World considers that the lack of housing has consequences for families and their access to rights. The umbrella organisation Pour un Droit au Logement Opposable (For an Enforceable Right to Housing), of which ATD Fourth World is a member, estimates that there are currently three million people lawfully in France who are homeless or badly housed. The families in the Cité de promotion familiale and those who have applied for a place have all experienced this ordeal and can bear witness to the process of exclusion that follows. Loss or lack of housing creates a form of residential insecurity that reinforces their social insecurity. Failure to enforce their right to housing has serious, multiple and mutually reinforcing consequences in terms of growing exclusion. 161. Lack of decent housing also has numerous consequences for individuals . The first concern family ties, with the risk of break-up between spouses or between parents and children, and of the family’s relations with the world outside. It also affects the ability to find and keep a job – no employment is possible without an address – thus reinforcing individuals’ vulnerability. There are consequences for health, since badly housed families often suffer deteriorating health, while lack of proper sanitation makes it difficult to maintain a satisfactory level of hygiene. There is also an educational effect, since the schooling of disadvantaged children is often disturbed, intermittent and discontinuous, and hindered by their instability as they share their parents’ pain and distress. Finally there are consequences for