Housing, Building and Planning

A/RES/1917(XVIII)No PDF available

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1964.

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3 versions · 1964–1971

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7 topics

Construction Industry Housing Needs Housing Programmes Housing Projects Low Cost Housing Pilot Projects Standards

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8 operative paragraphs

Invites the Committee on Housing, Building and Planning to prepare as soon as possible recommendations to Governments suggesting practical and effective measures they may take to solve their housing problems;

Recommends that as a matter of priority the Committee on Housing, Building and Planning should suggest appropriate means of emergency action during the second half of the United Nations Development Decade and that it should;

Study and recommend practical methods of establishing appropriate national bodies which could promote the development of national building industries ;

( b) Prepare suitable targets for housing and environmental development consistent with the targets for the Decade set out in the Secretary-General's proposals5 and in Economic and Social Council resolution 916 (XXXIV) of 3 August 1962;

( c) Suggest practical methods and criteria for establishing appropriate standards for such action along the lines of Economic and Social Council resolution 975 F

8 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Thirty-sixth Session, Supf>[ement No. 13 (E/3719/Rev.l), chapter iV.

4 Official Recards of the General Assembly, Eighteenth Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/5S03), chapter IX, paras. 387-

5 The United Nations Development Decade: Proposals for action (United Nations publication, Sales No.: 62.II.B.2),

(XXXVI), taking into account the resources available for housing and urban development;

Recommends that Governments take all necessary measures designed to ensure the creation and execution of low-income housin;., programmes, including the encouragement of housmg co-operatives, and to guard against any practices, especially speculation in real estate, which may prove detrimental to such programmes;

Invites the Secretary-General, the regional economic commissions, the specialized agencies concerned and the interested inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations to co-operate with the Committee on Housing, Building and Planning and to assist requesting Governments in formulating· and exe~uting, within the framework of general development and

taking into account internal resources and external aid available for such programmes, specific action programmes in housing and environmental development' consistent with the targets and standards recommended;

Invites the Secretary-General to explore appropriate methods of expanding, within the framework of the United Nations programmes of technical cooperation and with the co-operation of interested Governments, the programme of pilot projects in housing, building and planning as a means of facilitating the achievement of national targets for the remainder of the Decade;

Invites the Managing Director of the Special Fund to consider the feasibility of including suitable aspects of such pilot projects among the pre-investment activities essential for environmental development as part of general development ;

Requests the Economic and Social Council and the Secretary -General to report to the General Assembly at its nineteenth session on the implementation of the present resolution.

5 December 1963.

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