Human Rights Solutions to Homelessness:

Keynote speaker Miloon Kothari: former Special Reporter on Adequate Housing for the United Nations Human Rights Council
Kothari offered various solutions that will be outlined in more detail this January/February in an advanced version released on http://www.ohchr.org/

1. More legal recognition to the right to adequate housing
2. Comprehensive and coordinated national housing policy
3. A national strategy timeline that has realistic goals
4. More social housing programs
5. Implementing anti-discriminatory legislation
6. Rise in social assistance payments
7. Collaboration and coordination at all levels of government
8. A national strategy of affordable housing that is permanent and sustainable with adequate funding
9. Large scale building of affordable housing
10. An official, national definition of homelessness that leads to a coordinated national strategy