4. Being accountable and transparent • Accountability can include providing fair mechanisms for your tenants to complain, and engaging with external or independent processes (such as Tenancy Services and the Tenancy Tribunal) in good faith. • • Data and measurement are crucial to achieving the right to a decent home. Monitor and keep track of the standards of homes you manage – for example, accurately monitor and report on your Healthy Homes compliance or track the number or proportion of properties you develop according to universal design standards. Set goals, targets, timelines, and mechanisms for transparent evidencebased monitoring on how you or your company is meeting the right to a decent home. As a housing provider, investor, or private business in the housing sector, you have the power to uphold the right to a decent home grounded on te Tiriti o Waitangi through the decisions you make. If you work for a company or business, you can also encourage your organisation to progress key features of the right to a decent home. Where you have the power to do so, use resources to act with urgency to fulfill the right to a decent home grounded on te Tiriti o Waitangi. Finally, we can all advocate to government and those in power to fully realise this important human right. Showing support for local and central government recognition of the right to a decent home and policies that implement it is a powerful way for us to contribute to shaping a housing system which supports the human right to a decent home. All of us, regardless of our relationship to power, can take steps towards realising the right to a decent home for everyone in Aotearoa. The right to a decent home in Aotearoa – for the private sector 7