for ensuring the housing is fit for purpose and meets human rights and Te Tiriti obligations. This responsibility requires developing and implementing standards and mechanisms for monitoring, independent review, and remedial action, such as an effective and accessible complaint process.44 Notably, constructive accountability also includes independent review carried out by bodies such as a national human rights institution like the Human Rights Commission, Ombudsman, Tenancy Tribunal, or other independent arrangement. A government’s internal reviews to check that strategies, policies, initiatives, and practices are fit for purpose and performing adequately have an important role to play. Internal reviews 42 Human Rights Commission can identify whether strategies and policies are upholding the right to a decent home grounded on Te Tiriti o Waitangi. However, if the reviews are not independent, they are not forms of constructive accountability. Government must also progressively realise the right to a decent home in all other respects Alongside the four immediate obligations outlined above, government must take deliberate, concrete, and targeted steps towards full realisation of the right to a decent home for everyone in Aotearoa New Zealand, including effective measures to address unfair disadvantage.

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