Endnotes 48 1 Long title, Human Rights Act, 1993. 2 Section 3 of the Guidelines outlines the key values. 3 See Appendices 2 and 3. 4 See section 2; the sub-section ‘Values’ in section 3; and Appendix 4. 5 Italics in original. WHO Housing and Health Guidelines, World Health Organization, Geneva, 2018, page 2. 6 The ‘International Bill of Rights’ is the well-established shorthand for three documents which together provide the foundation for the entire global system of human rights painstakingly drafted and agreed since 1945: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 7 General Comment 3, UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in E/1991/23. 8 Sustainable Development Goal 17, Target 1. 9 See Appendix 3. 10 See Appendix 3. 11 Even though the right to a decent home has not been placed in national law, it attracted discussion in Lawson v Housing New Zealand [1997] 2 NZLR 474, but without shedding significant light on what the court interprets the human right to mean. 12 The Human Rights Commission frames human rights and Te Tiriti o Waitangi as consisting of “the 3Rs”: relationships, responsibilities and rights, see the opinion piece by Paul Hunt, How to resist those who roll their eyes at mention of human rights, 16 October 2020. 13 Disability is a broad term including people with physical and psycho-social impairment. Persons with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which, in interaction with various barriers, may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others (see the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, article 1). 14 Statistics New Zealand defines homelessness in New Zealand as “a living situation where people with no other options to acquire safe and secure housing are: without shelter, in temporary accommodation, sharing accommodation with a household, or living in uninhabitable housing.” New Zealand definition of homelessness: 2015 update. Retrieved from www.stats.govt.nz. 15 End of Mission Statement, Visit of the Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing to New Zealand Leilani Farha, Wellington, 19 February 2020, paragraph 4. 16 Tangata Tiriti: people of the treaty; all people in Aotearoa who are not Tangata Whenua and who belong to this land by right of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Ko ngā tāngata katoa ka noho mai ki Aotearoa i raro i te mana o te Tiriti o Waitangi. 17 UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 4, paragraph 8. 18 Like the rest of the Guidelines, the suitability of codes will be reviewed regularly (section 1). 19 This is not to imply that homeownership is the only or preferred form of ownership, see section 2 and ‘Security of tenure’ in section 3. 20 For the poverty experienced by many working households in Aotearoa, see In-Work Poverty in New Zealand (Plum, A., Pacheco, G., & Hick, R., 2019, New Zealand Work Research Institute AUT, commissioned by the New Zealand Human Rights Commission). 21 In 2021 the Human Rights Commission published Talanoa: Human rights issues for Pacific People in Aotearoa New Zealand. This report discusses the housing issues faced by many Pacific people, including affordability, overcrowding, insecure tenancies, and substandard housing conditions e.g. damp and mould. Human Rights Commission