A/RES/71/256
New Urban Agenda
accommodation and opportunities for decent and productive work for crisis-affected
persons in urban settings and to working with local communities and local
governments to identify opportunities for engaging and developing local, durable
and dignified solutions while ensuring that aid also flows to affected persons and
host communities to prevent regression of their development.
30. We acknowledge the need for Governments and civil society to further support
resilient urban services during armed conflicts. We also acknowledge the need to
reaffirm full respect for international humanitarian law.
31. We commit ourselves to promoting national, subnational and local housing
policies that support the progressive realization of the right to adequate housing for
all as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, that address all
forms of discrimination and violence and prevent arbitrary forced evictions and that
focus on the needs of the homeless, persons in vulnerable situations, low -income
groups and persons with disabilities, while enabling the participation and
engagement of communities and relevant stakeholders in the planning and
implementation of these policies, including supporting the social production of
habitat, according to national legislation and standards.
32. We commit ourselves to promoting the development of integrated and age- and
gender-responsive housing policies and approaches across all sectors, in particular
the employment, education, health-care and social integration sectors, and at all
levels of government — policies and approaches that incorporate the provision of
adequate, affordable, accessible, resource-efficient, safe, resilient, well-connected
and well-located housing, with special attention to the proximity factor and the
strengthening of the spatial relationship with the rest of the urban fabric and the
surrounding functional areas.
33. We commit ourselves to stimulating the supply of a variety of adequate
housing options that are safe, affordable and accessible for members of different
income groups of society, taking into consideration the socioeconomic and cultural
integration of marginalized communities, homeless persons and those in vulnerable
situations and preventing segregation. We will take positive measures to improve the
living conditions of homeless people, with a view to facilitating their full
participation in society, and to prevent and eliminate homelessness, as well as to
combat and eliminate its criminalization.
34. We commit ourselves to promoting equitable and affordable access to
sustainable basic physical and social infrastructure for all, without discrimination,
including affordable serviced land, housing, modern and renewable energy, safe
drinking water and sanitation, safe, nutritious and adequate food, waste disposal,
sustainable mobility, health care and family planning, education, culture, and
information and communications technologies. We further commit ourselves to
ensuring that these services are responsive to the rights and needs of women,
children and youth, older persons and persons with disabilities, migrants, indigenous
peoples and local communities, as appropriate, and to those of others in vulnerable
situations. In this regard, we encourage the elimination of legal, institutional,
socioeconomic and physical barriers.
35. We commit ourselves to promoting, at the appropriate level of government,
including subnational and local government, increased security of tenure for all,
recognizing the plurality of tenure types, and to developing fit -for-purpose and age-,
gender- and environment-responsive solutions within the continuum of land and
property rights, with particular attention to security of land tenure for women as key
to their empowerment, including through effective administrative systems.
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