Emergency housing system. The government front-line response to homelessness and people with urgent housing need. The system includes a range of initiatives and responses, two of which are the housing grant and transitional housing. It is sometimes referred to as “emergency and transitional housing” because housing grant accommodation and transitional housing form the bulk of the places in the system. Housing register. The list of people who have been assessed as eligible for public housing, and who are waiting for a public housing place to become available. It is managed and administered by the Ministry of Social Development. Public housing. Housing delivered by KO and CHPs, and available to people assessed as eligible based on their housing needs. Public housing is sometimes referred to as “state housing” or “social housing”. Residents in public housing usually pay up to 25% of their income as rent. Transitional housing. A form of emergency housing delivered by accredited and contracted housing support providers, which includes wraparound social support. Transitional housing includes newly built properties, repurposed properties, motels, and properties leased from the private market. Some transitional housing is in contracted motel accommodation, but most is in other facilities. The intended length of stay is 12 weeks. It is funded and managed (via contracts) by HUD, with some administration ongoing from MSD. Wraparound support. Social support services such as wellbeing checks, healthcare, counselling, employment assistance, budgeting, and other support services which are provided onsite in a transitional housing residence/complex. 66 Human Rights Commission Human rights terms Constructive accountability. A key feature of human rights. Constructive accountability has three elements: • monitoring i.e., the collection of information and data; • review, including independent review, in relation to agreed standards and promises made; • remedial action. Immediate obligations. Features of the right to a decent home that are so important that they must be delivered immediately – they cannot be delivered slowly over time. Progressive realisation. Taking deliberate, concrete, and targeted steps towards full realisation of the right to a decent home. Progressive realisation acknowledges that the right to a decent home cannot be completely delivered overnight. Apart from immediate obligations, the other features of the right to a decent home are subject to progressive realisation. The right to a decent home grounded on Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Used by the Human Rights Commission to refer to the ‘right to adequate housing’, as established in binding international human rights law. The right to adequate housing is broader than physical shelter, and encompasses the right to warm, dry, safe, secure, affordable, accessible, healthy, decent housing. In Aotearoa New Zealand, the constitutional status of Te Tiriti o Waitangi means that the right to a decent home must be read alongside (‘grounded on’) Te Tiriti. In 2021 the Commission published Aratohu tika tangata ki te whai whare rawaka i Aotearoa: Framework Guidelines on the right to a decent home in Aotearoa. These set out in detail the key features of the right to a decent home grounded on Te Tiriti o Waitangi.