A/HRC/4/9/Add.2 page 18 75. Analysis of the employment situation amongst Roma women has been frustrated by the general lack of gender perspective within labour market studies, and national policy on Roma issues has lacked a specific gender perspective. It is estimated that an additional 25 per cent of Roma women stay at home to care for the household or children. High levels of unemployment amongst Roma women are also driven by poor levels of education and multiple or intersectional forms of discrimination. 76. A dangerous legacy of long-term and widespread unemployment amongst Roma communities is a lack of working role models for Roma children and poor levels of motivation amongst Roma families to expend scarce resources on education when they perceive a future of unemployment. Hungary’s MDG report indicates that 50 per cent of Roma children live in households without any active earners. 77. Numerous cases of anti-Roma discrimination in employment have been catalogued and legal cases have been brought recently under the 2004 Equal Treatment Act and via the Equal Treatment Authority and the Minority Ombudsman. However, findings of discriminatory practice by employers have not resulted in penalties adequate to act as a deterrent against future discrimination. To date anti-discrimination legislation has largely failed to impact significantly on discrimination against Roma in the labour market. 78. In response to this serious situation, the Hungarian Government has funded a number of employment initiatives and targeted labour market programmes over recent years with varying degrees of success. Such schemes include training and skills development initiatives, projects to assist Roma through employment agencies, expansion of public works programmes, and a Social Land Programme. In addition, in 2003 the Hungarian Ministry of Economy and Transportation launched a programme to aid micro, small- and medium-sized Roma business ventures, encourage entrepreneurship and facilitate Roma employment. Between 2003-2005 approximately 2 billion forint (7 million euros) were invested into Roma businesses and 400 new jobs created. According to the Government, in 2006 the amount allocated to the same purpose has been increased by 25 per cent. G. Housing 79. Housing has been described by one observer as the biggest emergency in Hungary in the post-communist era. Roma are disproportionately housed in substandard accommodation, in some cases detrimental to health. The Independent Expert witnessed first hand families in such circumstances. UNDP states that 46 per cent of Roma households are without basic amenities. Homelessness, affecting an estimated 30,000 people in Hungary according to NGO statistics, also disproportionately affects Roma and should be addressed as a matter of urgency. 80. Forced evictions of Roma in Hungary are a problem requiring government attention and improved legislation and policy. About 10,000 people are currently threatened with eviction in Budapest, many of them Roma. In the post-communist reform era, autonomous but poorly financed local authorities raised funds by selling public housing resulting in one of the lowest public housing stocks in the region. Rental accommodation is often beyond the means of Roma families surviving on benefits, who often default on rental payments and are subsequently vulnerable to eviction.