Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development : Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context

INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to. [...] As requested by his function, the Special Rapporteur focuses the remainder of the report and his recommendations on issues and sectors of the population that require the attention of the authorities. [...] The Special Rapporteur enumerates a number of factors impeding the effective implementation of the right to housing for all, including the non-recognition of a separate right to adequate housing, the absence of a definition of homelessness, the lack of a national housing strategy and issues resulting from the allocation of competencies to different levels of authority. [...] The Special Rapporteur notes the concerns expressed about the rise in the number of the homeless and people in inadequate housing and living conditions, rising prices in the housing sector affecting an increasing number of people with various levels of income, and the decrease in public housing. [...] In 1996, the federal government announced plans to transfer administration of most existing federal housing programes to the provinces and territories and in 1999, the federal government amended the National Housing Act with the stated goal of giving Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation more flexibility.