We shape our buildings – WINSTON CHURCHILL

ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULI

-Size and height of space

-color

-temperature

-noise

An area with invisible boundaries – PERSONAL SPACE

- Sex
- Culture

The number of persons per unit area – DENSITY

BEHAVIOR SETTING

- Overstaffed
- Understaffed

Being alone – SOLITUDE

The ability of a small number of people to be by themselves undisturbed –

INTIMACY

The ability to interact or be with others – ANONYMITY

The ability to limit communication – RESERVE

Can be defined as the negotiated, shared understandings – CULUTURAL

PERSPECTIVE
CULUTURAL PERSPECTIVE

- cultural values
- cosmic views
- world view
- categorization – influence lifestyle, design used
- cultural mores , traditions and customs
- religion

VIEWS OF PEOPLE

- RITUAL SPACE
- SYMBOLIC SPACE
- EXPRESSIVE SPACE
- SOCIAL SPACE
- EMOTIONAL SPACE
- TECHNOLOGICAL SPACE
- CONSUMPTION SPACE

Housing is doubly important for it is part of the environment – HOUSE

Influence human behaviour

- Sense of place
- Relatedness
- Privacy
- Psychological stimulation
- Creativity

Critical to the implementation of any housing program – FINANCING

Allow individuals to pool resources – COOPERATIVES

Fully fund the development of housing projects , government or non government –
COST RECOVERY

Needs some type of financial assistance to obtain housing – CREDIT

These payment have a two components, the rent and the additional amount –
LEASE

The market fails to provide adequate housing, national financing maybe use to fill
the gap – NATIONAL FINANCING

This assistance can be made to the buyer , renter or seller – SUBSIDIES

Devices ways of helping those in need to obtain the skills – HOMELESSNESS

Provide direct assistance for homeless people – DIRECT ASSISTANCE

To become economically self-sufficient – INCOME GENERATION

Prevent homelessness through intervention – PREVENTION

Impede the construction and rehabilitation – CONSTRUCTION AND

REHABILITATION

The most cost effective approaches to construction – LOW COST BUILDING

TECHNIQUES

High cost of conventional building materials – CONSTRUCTION

TECHNOLOGY AND METHOD

Exchange of residents free labor for free building materials – SELF-

CONSTRUCTION AND MUTUAL HELP

Proportion of housing stock is dilapidated – REHABILITATION

Present two challenges, prevention and response – NATURAL DISASTERS:

REHABILITATION AND CONSTRUCTION

Biggest challenge facing its nation – LOW-INCOME AND AFFORDABLE

HOUSING
Lack the information and assistance needed to secure housing –
INFORMATIONAL AND COUNSELING SERVICES

Produced benefits such as job creation and economical development – MIXED-

INCOM HOUSING

The most successful housing program – PLANNING AND COMPREHENSIVE

APPROACHES TO HOUSING DEVELOPMENT

To make effective use of local resources – ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE

PLANNING

Illustrate how housing projects can address sanitation and safety issues such as
clean water – INFRASTRUCTURE, SANITATION AND SAFETY

The provision of land tenure and security – DISTRESSED AREAS

Lack of land security poses one of the greatest threat – FREE LAND PLOTS

One of the greatest challenge facing urban areas today – SLUM,

SHANTYTOWN, AND SQUATTER SETTLEMENT REDEVELOPMENT

To sustain thriving communities – COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC

DEVELOPMENT

Often an integral element of successful planning- COMMUNITY

PARTICIPATION AND CAPACITY BUILDING
The New Urban Agenda was adopted at the United Nations Conference on Housing and
Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in Quito, Ecuador, on 20 October 2016. It was
endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly at its sixty-eighth plenary meeting of the
seventy-first session on 23 December 2016.
The New Urban Agenda is an action-oriented document that mobilizes Member States and other
key stakeholders to drive sustainable urban development at the local level.
The implementation of the New Urban Agenda contributes to the localization of the 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development in an integrated manner, and to the achievement of the
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, including Goal 11 of making cities and human
settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
The General Assembly encourages the continuous generation of evidence-based and practical
guidance for the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and related dimensions of the 2030
Agenda. The NUA Platform supports the further development of the action framework through
contributions made by Member States, local authorities and all other key stakeholders.
What we are doing
 
1.     Developing interlinkages between global agendas
Understanding the range of interdependencies among the global agendas is key to unlocking
their full potential, optimizing resources and leveraging resource development outcomes at every
level of government, within the United Nations system and across all sectors and stakeholders.
UN-Habitat is working to deliver this through:
 Creating a coherence among global agendas at the urban level;
 Enhancing Policy Coherence;
 Driving progress towards an integrated approach
2.   Establishing an incremental & inclusive reporting system
Most of the reporting related to the New Urban Agenda draws on the system of indicators and
data that are available from the 2030 Agenda monitoring framework are coordinated by the
Statistics Division.
UN-Habitat is working to provide an incremental approach to reporting on the implementation of
the New Urban Agenda, building on the Sustainable Development Goal global monitoring
framework which is led by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the Statistics
Division (UNDESA).
UN-Habitat is working to deliver this through:
 Providing a system to host user-friendly & participatory data platforms
 Reinforcing partners platforms for engagement, participation & partnership
 Establishing partnerships within the UN System.
The challenge

 By 2030, UN-Habitat estimates that 3 billion people, about 40 per cent of the world’s
population, will need access to adequate housing. This translates into a demand for
96,000 new affordable and accessible housing units every day. Additionally, an estimated
100 million people worldwide are homeless and one in four people live in harmful
conditions that to their health, safety and prosperity.
 Access to housing is a precondition for access to employment, education, health, and
social services. In order to address the current housing challenges, all levels of
government should put housing at the centre of urban policies by placing people and
human rights at the forefront of urban sustainable development.

INTRODUCTION
The shift towards a predominantly urban world makes the process of urbanization one of the
most significant global trends of the 21st century. The significant transformation that has
occurred in recent decades has given greater understanding and recognition to the role of
urbanization in development.
However, the issues around housing have not received sufficient attention within the
urbanization process. Compounded by rapid population growth and remaining high levels of
poverty, cities in the developing world are facing persistent challenges to meet their housing
needs. Not only the lack of adequate housing is enormous, but in many countries the stock of
vacant houses increases even when millions of people have nowhere to live. Housing
affordability has become a global crisis with strong negative impact on the wellbeing of people
and on the exacerbation of urban inequality. One of the worst global economic crises of last
decades had housing at its epicentre, entrenched in a combination of aggressive financing and
ownership models that stressed speculation over social welfare.
Clearly, a lot of what has gone wrong with cities is related in one way or another to housing. The
way housing is being produced and consumed has shaped urban growth, regretfully, in many
cases, by producing cities that are fragmented, unequal and dysfunctional. The sustainable future
of cities and the yields of urbanization will therefore strongly depend on facing and tackling the
housing problems.

UN-Habitat is mandated to promote sustainable urbanization and adequate housing for all. At the
core of the strategic direction of UN-Habitat’s work is an increasingly accepted new vision of the
role of urbanization in sustainable development. UN-Habitat has pursued urbanization as the
engine of development, a transformative force which can potentially lead the world to overcome
challenges related to sustainability, climate change, poverty, exclusion and inequality. With an
emphasis on urban legislation, urban planning and urban economy, UN-Habitat has sought to
develop an integrated framework for planned urbanization - the “Three-Pronged approach” –
designed to better respond to the challenges and harness the opportunities of cities and human
settlements.
Towards Habitat III, UN-Habitat has concentrated efforts to re-establish the role of housing for
the future of sustainable urbanization. With that aim, it is proposing the ‘Housing at the Centre’
approach1, which comes to position housing at the centre of national and local urban agendas.
‘Housing at the Centre’ aims to shift the focus from simply building houses to a holistic
framework for housing development, orchestrated with urban planning practice and placing
people and human rights at the forefront of urban sustainable development. At the national level,
the goal is to integrate housing into National Urban Policies and into UN-Habitat’s strategic
thinking on planned urbanization. At the local level, the approach is to reinforce the importance
of housing for urban planning and concomitantly to the development of cities and people. With
the ‘Housing at the Centre’ approach, UN-Habitat will re-establish housing problems and op-
portunities in the international development agenda in an increasingly strategic manner vis-a-vis
the future of urbanization.

‘Housing at the Centre’ approach comes to position housing at the centre of national and local
urban agendas. ‘Housing at the Centre’ aims to shift the focus from simply building houses to a
holistic framework for housing development, orchestrated with urban planning practice and
placing people and human rights at the forefront of urban sustainable development.