Realization of the right to adequate housing.

1988/24. Realization of the right to adequate housing

The Commission on Human Rights, Bearing in mind that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights provide that all persons have the right to an adequate standard of living for themselves and their families, including adequate housing, and that States should take appropriate steps to ensure the realization of this right, Recalling its resolution 1987/22 of 10 March 1987, Noting with appreciation the measures and action taken and the renewed commitments made during the International Year of Shelter for the Homeless (1987) by Member States, specialized agencies and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations so as to advance the realization of this right, Taking into account General Assembly resolution 42/146 of 7 December 1987, in which the Assembly requested the Economic and Social Council and its appropriate functional commissions to keep the question of the right to adequate housing under periodic review,

1. Expresses its deep concern that millions of people do not enjoy the right to adequate housing;

2. Reiterates the need to take, at the national and international levels, measures to promote the right of all persons to an adequate standard of living for themselves and their families, including adequate housing;

3. Takes note of the attention paid to the question of promoting the right to adequate housing in the information transmitted by the Secretary-General in his report to the General Assembly on the realization of the objectives of the International Year of Shelter for the Homeless (A/42/378);

4. Notes that the General Assembly, in resolution 42/146, called upon all States and the international organizations concerned to pay special attention to the realization of the right to adequate housing in carrying out measures to develop national shelter strategies and settlement improvement programmes within the framework of the global strategy for shelter to the year 2000;

5. Decides, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 42/146 , to keep the question of the right to adequate housing under periodic review.

49th meeting
7 March 1988
[Adopted by a roll-call vote of 31 to none, with
11 abstentions. See chap. VIII.]