Specific groups requiring special attention within a housing rights framework

The following is excerpted from HS/C/15/INF.7 - Introduction entitled "Towards A Housing Rights Strategy: Practical Contributions By UNCHS (Habitat) On Promoting, Ensuring And Protecting The Full Realization Of The Human Right To Adequate Housing"
Specific groups requiring special attention within a housing rights framework, according to the Special Rapporteur on Housing Rights, include:
(a) homeless citizens (no permanent residence);
(b) pavement dwellers (permanent residence on pavement);
(c) slum dwellers (residents of informal settlements, tenements, squatter areas, etc.);
(d) public-sector tenants (residents of social housing units);
(e) private-sector tenants (residents of private-sector housing units);
(f) owner-occupiers (own and reside in own home);
(g) victims of eviction, demolition, natural disasters etc. (temporarily or permanently displaced and dehoused);
(h) workers (employees of employers responsible for the provision of housing);
(i) families (families of every size or status);
(j) women (all women of any status);
(k) children (all children of any status);
(l) disabled persons (all physically and mentally disabled persons, including persons with chronic health problems);
(m) migrant workers (non-nationals employed in third countries);
(n) elderly persons (all persons over 60 years);
(o) refugees and asylum seekers (all accepted refugees and asylum seekers legally within third countries);
(p) low-income groups (all groups living under, at or near to the accepted poverty line in any society);
(p) rural dwellers (all non-urban dwellers);
(q) nomads, travellers, gypsies etc. (dwellers not restricted to a permanent abode);
(r) ethnic, national, racial, social or other groups (all members of any distinct groups);
(s) indigenous peoples (all members of societies which self-identify as indigenous peoples);
(t) civilians and other victims of war and armed conflict (all non-combatants affected by war, including internally displaced persons); and (u) occupied populations (all persons belonging to peoples and states illegally occupied by another state).

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