Since 2000, the UN Human Rights Council has appointed a Special Rapporteur with a mandate focusing on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living. There have now been four Special Rapporteurs appointed to this role. Ms Farha, Special Rapporteur between 2014-2020, made a country visit to New Zealand in March 2020. Her End of Mission Statement on the state of housing in New Zealand can be found here. The Guidelines refer to the following reports of Ms Farha: • Key principles of a human rights-based housing strategy (2018 UN General Assembly 37th session) • Guidelines for the Implementation of the Right to Adequate Housing (2020 UN Human Rights Council 43rd session) The complete list of reports of the UN Special Rapporteurs on the right to adequate housing can be found here. UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights The independent UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has expressed its interpretation of the right to adequate housing: • General Comment 4: The right to adequate housing (art.11 (1)), UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights • General Comment 7: The right to adequate housing: forced evictions (art.11 (1)), UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Literature The Right to Housing: Law, Concepts, Possibilities (Jessie Hohmann: Hart, 2013) Effective Human Rights-Based Housing Strategies: Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing (Amnesty International, 2017) Housing Rights in Practice: Lessons learned from Leith (Scottish Human Rights Commission, May 2020) The Right to Adequate Housing (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Fact Sheet No. 21) Severe housing deprivation in Aotearoa/New Zealand: 2001-2013 (Kate Amore: He Kainga Oranga/Housing & Health Research Programme, University of Otago, Wellington) Generation Rent: Rethinking New Zealand’s Priorities (Shamubeel Eaqub and Selena Eaqub; BWB Texts, Bridget Williams Books, 2015) 33