Seven characterisics of adequate housing

1. Security of tenure:

Housing is not adequate if its occupants do not have a degree of tenure security which guarantees legal protection against forced evictions, harassment, and other threats.

2. Availability of services, materials, facilities, and infrastructure:

Housing is not adequate if its occupants do not have safe drinking water, adequate sanitation, energy for cooking, heating, lighting, food storage, or refuse disposal.

3. Affordability:

Housing is not adequate if its cost threatens or compromises the occupants’ enjoyment of other human rights.

4. Habitability:

Housing is not adequate if it does not guarantee physical safety or provide adequate space, as well as protection against cold, dampness, heat, rain, wind, and other threats to health and structural hazards.

5. Accessibility:

Housing is not adequate if the specific needs of disadvantaged and marginalized groups are not considered.

6. Location:

Housing is not adequate if it is cut off from employment opportunities, health-care services, schools, childcare centres, and other social facilities, or if it is located in polluted or dangerous areas.

7. Cultural adequacy:

Housing is not adequate if it does not respect and consider the expression of cultural identity.

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