A/HRC/56/68/Add.1 jurisprudence on affirmative action in college admissions. These legal decisions should be construed narrowly, as they do not prohibit all consideration of race, nor do they alter the responsibility to enforce anti-discrimination law. (x) Colleges should eliminate the reliance on standardized testing for admissions, which has been shown to unfairly disadvantage many from marginalized racial and ethnic groups. (y) Colleges should expand outreach and recruitment pathways from middle and high schools that are targeted at students from racially marginalized groups. (z) Colleges should consider limiting legacy admissions, which replicate the historical exclusion of racially marginalized groups. (aa) Colleges should consider reparations to the descendants of victims of slavery, including facilitating access to higher education. Poverty and economic inequality (bb) Step up efforts to address poverty and inequality affecting those from marginalized racial and ethnic groups, ensuring that structural issues driving such poverty are recognized and effectively addressed. (cc) Strengthen initiatives to address racial discrimination within the labour market. (dd) Continue and expand measures to build wealth among those from racially marginalized groups and close the racial wealth gap. Housing and homelessness (ee) Improve service provision to unhoused persons, including services targeted to the needs of women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons from marginalized racial and ethnic groups. (ff) End the criminalization of homelessness, including repealing any legislation that contributes to this phenomenon. (gg) Address the root causes of the high number of unhoused people of African descent and from other racially marginalized communities, including poverty, mental health issues, substance misuse and lack of affordable housing. (hh) Step up efforts to address racial discrimination within the housing market, including addressing the legacies of the racially discriminatory practice of redlining. Addressing environmental racism (ii) Ensure that Executive Order 14008 is implemented in a manner that explicitly addresses the disparate impact of the climate and environmental crises on marginalized racial and ethnic groups. (jj) Take steps to ensure that regulations governing the petrochemical and fossil fuel industries are implemented everywhere, including through the denial of business permits in areas already overburdened with pollution and contamination and by ordering the temporary or permanent cessation of business activities where there are severe threats to human health and/or the environment. (kk) Urgently issue a moratorium on the development of new petrochemical and fossil fuel plants and the expansion of current sites in the “Cancer Alley” region. (ll) Consider aborting the “Cop City” project in Atlanta, Georgia, due to the environmental impacts on racially marginalized groups in the South River area. 18 GE.24-08027