New Urban Agenda
A/RES/71/256
the national context — needed to assess changes in land values, while ensuring that
these data will not be used for discriminatory land -use policies.
105. We will foster the progressive realization of the right to adequate housing as a
component of the right to an adequate standard of living. We will develop and
implement housing policies at all levels, incorporating participatory planning and
applying the principle of subsidiarity, as appropriate, in order to ensure coherence
among national, subnational and local development strategies, land policies and
housing supply.
106. We will promote housing policies based on the principles of social inclusion,
economic effectiveness and environmental protection. We will support the effective
use of public resources for affordable and sustainable housing, including land in
central and consolidated areas of cities with adequate infrastructure, and encourage
mixed-income development to promote social inclusion and cohesion.
107. We will encourage the development of policies, tools, mechanisms and
financing models that promote access to a wide range of affordable, sustainable
housing options, including rental and other tenure options, as well as cooperative
solutions such as co-housing, community land trusts and other forms of collective
tenure that would address the evolving needs of per sons and communities, in order
to improve the supply of housing (especially for low-income groups), prevent
segregation and arbitrary forced evictions and displacements and provide dignified
and adequate reallocation. This will include support to increment al housing and selfbuild schemes, with special attention to programmes for upgrading slums and
informal settlements.
108. We will support the development of housing policies that foster local
integrated housing approaches by addressing the strong links b etween education,
employment, housing and health, preventing exclusion and segregation.
Furthermore, we commit ourselves to combating homelessness as well as to
combating and eliminating its criminalization through dedicated policies and
targeted active inclusion strategies, such as comprehensive, inclusive and
sustainable housing-first programmes.
109. We will consider increased allocations of financial and human resources, as
appropriate, for the upgrading and, to the extent possible, prevention of slums and
informal settlements, with strategies that go beyond physical and environmental
improvements to ensure that slums and informal settlements are integrated into the
social, economic, cultural and political dimensions of cities. These strategies should
include, as applicable, access to sustainable, adequate, safe and affordable housing,
basic and social services, and safe, inclusive, accessible, green and quality public
spaces, and they should promote security of tenure and its regularization, as well as
measures for conflict prevention and mediation.
110. We will support efforts to define and reinforce inclusive and transparent
monitoring systems for reducing the proportion of people living in slums and
informal settlements, taking into account the exper iences gained from previous
efforts to improve the living conditions of slum and informal -settlement dwellers.
111. We will promote the development of adequate and enforceable regulations in
the housing sector, including, as applicable, resilient building codes, standards,
development permits, land-use by-laws and ordinances, and planning regulations,
combating and preventing speculation, displacement, homelessness and arbitrary
forced evictions and ensuring sustainability, quality, affordability, health, safety,
accessibility, energy and resource efficiency, and resilience. We will also promote
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