94 Human Rights Indicators
Outcome
Process
Structural
Table 7
Accessibility to services
Housing affordability
• Date of entry into force and coverage
of legislation on security of tenure, equal
inheritance and protection against
forced eviction
Security of tenure
• Proportion of urban population living
in slums*
• Proportion of population using an
improved drinking water (public / private)
source, sanitation facility, electricity and
waste disposal
• Proportion of household budget of target
population groups spent on water supply,
sanitation, electricity and waste disposal
• Proportion of population with sufficient
living space (persons per room or rooms
per household) or average number of
persons per room among target
households
• Proportion of households living in
permanent structure in compliance with
building codes and by-laws
• Proportion of households living in or near
hazardous conditions
(“X” being defined normatively for the
national context)
• Proportion of households spending more
than “X” per cent of their monthly income
or expenditure on housing or average
rent of bottom three income deciles as
a proportion of the top three
• Annual average of homeless persons
per 100,000 population
• Proportion of households that receive
public housing assistance, including those
living in subsidized rental and subsidized
owner-occupied housing
• Proportion of targeted households living
in squatter settlements rehabilitated in the
reporting period
• Proportion of homeless population that
used public or community-based shelters
in the reporting period
• Reported cases of “forced evictions”
(e.g., as reported to the special
procedures), in the reporting period
• Proportion of households with legally
enforceable, contractual, statutory or other
protection providing security of tenure or
proportion of households with access to
secure tenure
• Proportion of women with title to land or
property
• Average time taken to settle disputes
related to housing and land rights in courts
and tribunals
• Number/proportion of legal appeals
aimed at preventing planned evictions
or demolitions ordered by courts in the
reporting period
• Number/proportion of legal procedures
seeking compensation following evictions
in the reporting period, by result after
adjudication
• Number and proportion of displaced or
evicted persons rehabilitated or resettled
in the reporting period
* MDG-related indicators
All indicators should be disaggregated by prohibited grounds of discrimination, as applicable and reflected in metadata sheets
• Share of public expenditure on provision
and maintenance of sanitation, water
supply, electricity and other services
of homes
• Proportion of targeted population that
was extended sustainable access to an
improved water source,* improved
sanitation,* electricity and waste disposal
in the reporting period
• Proportion of homes (cities, towns and
villages) brought under the provisions
of building codes and by-laws in the
reporting period
• Share of public expenditure on social
or community housing
• Habitable area (sq. m.) added through
reclamation, including of hazardous sites
and change in land-use pattern, in the
reporting period
• Habitable area (sq. m. per capita)
earmarked for social or community
housing during the reporting period
• Proportion of received complaints on the right to adequate housing investigated and adjudicated by the national human rights institution, human rights ombudsperson or other mechanisms
and the proportion of these responded effectively to by the Government
• Number of and total public expenditures on housing reconstruction and rehabilitation by evicted/displaced persons during the reporting period
• Net official development assistance for housing (including land and basic services) received or provided as proportion of public expenditure on housing or gross national income*
• Proportion of targeted residents reporting satisfaction with how involved they feel in decision-making affecting their enjoyment of the right to adequate housing
• Time frame and coverage of national housing policy or strategy for the progressive implementation of measures, including special measures
for target groups, for the right to adequate housing at different levels of government
• Time frame and coverage of national policy on rehabilitation, resettlement and management of natural disasters
• International human rights treaties relevant to the right to adequate housing ratified by the State
• Date of entry into force and coverage of the right to adequate housing in the constitution or other forms of superior law
• Date of entry into force and coverage of domestic laws for implementing the right to adequate housing
• Type of accreditation of national human rights institutions by the rules of procedure of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions
• Number of registered and/or active NGOs (per 100,000 persons) involved in the promotion and protection of the right to adequate housing
Habitability
Illustrative indicators on the right to adequate housing (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, art. 25)
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