This report urges both UNTAET and the emerging political structures of the nascent Government of an independent East Timor, including the CNRT (National Council for Timorese Resistance) and the National Council (formerly the National Consultative Council), to begin treating housing as an issue of human rights, rather than how it has been treated to date - purely as a humanitarian emergency issue of temporary shelter or, when it comes to housing, an unattainable, unaffordable, lofty long-term dream too daunting to tackle head-on.