Key Activities and specific plans to prevent elderly suicide, including mental health programs and visiting health services targeting senior citizens. K. ‌Institutional Improvement Recommendation for the Rights of People Living in Non-Dwelling Facilities On December 31, the Commission recommended the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport to take the following actions with a view to promoting the rights of people who live in poor housing conditions: to specify the target year and develop an implementation plan to increase housing supply under the Guidelines on Housing Support for People in Vulnerable Housing Situations; to change the surface area and facility criteria in the minimum living standards in line with changing household composition, living conditions, and international standards, and to make for more specific and measurable structural, performance, and environmental criteria; to set the minimum surface area and facility criteria for gosiwon (low-cost, cramped single-room type accommodation) to meet proper living conditions and to have those that fail to meet the new standards come up with improvement plans. The human rights of people exposed to poor living conditions have emerged as a social issue, with petitions filed with the Commission demanding support to redress the situation. The petitions were triggered by several incidents, including the deaths and injuries resulting from a fire in a gosiwon and the threats to life and health facing residents of jjokbang (rooms smaller than 2 square meters that don’t require a deposit to stay in) in times of heat waves in the summer. According to the Census Bureau, the number of households living in non-residential facilities such as hotel/motel rooms, shacks, greenhouse, or gosiwon increased rapidly, from 54,000 in 2005 to 360,000 in 2015. Some residential facilities such as semi-basement homes, basement homes, and rooftop rooms are also in poor conditions. The number of households residing in a facility that is below the minimum living standard (announced by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport) was 1.11 million in 2018. The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing expressed concerns about the poor living conditions of these facilities and recommended the government to improve the situation. 40