Opinions on the first National Report of Korea on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ③ The Act on Supporting the Housing Impaired including Persons with Disabilities and the Elderly requires that rental housing complexes constructed for 30 years of rental period should include houses for the housing impaired, while long-term yearly rental houses, government-owned rental houses and public rental houses (5/10 years) are excluded from the requirement. 2) Recommendation ① In an effort to realize the basic rights of persons with disabilities and achieve their social inclusion, the government should ensure their rights to live in the local community by building a phase-by-phase support system so they can reside in the everyday environment of the local community rather than in a facility, and arrange local community resources or provide alternative residential and employment support necessary during the initial stage to settle down. ② It is also necessary to introduce minimum housing standards which reflect the characteristics of disabilities so as to provide substantial housing support. The housing status of persons with disabilities should be regularly surveyed, in consideration of the characteristic of disabilities such as the types of disability and housing. ③ The Act on Support of the Housing Impaired such as Persons with Disabilities and the Elderly should be revised to make the construction of houses for the housing impaired mandatory not only in rental housing complexes built for 30 years of rental period but also in long-term yearly rental houses, governmentowned rental houses and public rental houses (5/10 years). It is also necessary to introduce the concept of universal design primarily to the construction of rental houses for the housing impaired. NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF KOREA 22