Section 3: Key features of the right to a decent home grounded on Te Tiriti o Waitangi 47. This section outlines eight key features of the right to a decent home grounded on Te Tiriti. Most of the key features are interconnected. For example, it is not possible to compartmentalise equity, equality and nondiscrimination; participation; and constructive accountability which includes redress. So, it is important that the interconnected key features are read together, and with Te Tiriti and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. A. Values 48. All societies, institutions and processes are driven by one set of values or another. Whether explicit or implicit, values are exceedingly important. They shape lives, communities and the future. They also shape human rights. The following values should be woven into all the features of the right to a decent home grounded on Te Tiriti. 49. Te Ao Māori is underpinned by whakapapa (genealogy) and whanaungatanga (kinship). In this worldview, relationships between people - past, present and future - are of central importance. Also, the relationship between people and the natural world is crucial. 50. Kaitiakitanga (stewardship), a system of reciprocal rights and responsibilities, arises from these relationships. Kaitiakitanga includes intergenerational responsibilities and it also has spiritual dimensions. Mana (authority, power, leadership) requires the maintenance of these relationships and responsibilities. 51. Te Ao Māori reflects an indivisible relationship between Māori and whenua which is reinforced by Te Tiriti and the United Nations Declaration 24 Human Rights Commission on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. As discussed in the Introduction, the idea of a home includes a web of relationships and responsibilities, as well as an abiding sense of love for Papatūānuku (the earth) to which tangata whenua belong. 52. In Aotearoa, our values encompass Te Ao Māori and the worldviews of other communities. These values not only include whakapapa, whanaungatanga, kaitiakitanga and mana (as outlined above), they also include manaakitanga (respect), dignity, decency, fairness, equality, freedom, wellbeing, safety, autonomy, participation, partnership, community and responsibility. 53. These values are embodied in the human right to a decent home and Te Tiriti. Crucially, the Guidelines are driven by these values and the right to a decent home grounded on Te Tiriti. This combination of values, the right to a decent home and Te Tiriti should also lie at the centre of legislation, strategies, policies, programmes and other housing-related initiatives in Aotearoa.