Requeststhe Economic and Social Council, enlisting for the purpose the services of the appropriate subsidiary bodies, including where suitable regional bodies, and in collaboration with the competent specialized agencies and the non-governmental organizations concerned, to give urgent attention to practical measures to assist governments in increasing available housing facilities for people in the lowest income groups, including, inter alia:
a
Intensification of activities to provide information to governments on techniques of production and building to increase the productivity of the building industry, to utilize local construction materials more economically and to reduce the cost of housing by lowering the cost of materials and equipment through standardization and prefabrication;
( b) Advice to governments on the development of housing programmes and their relation to over-all plans for economic development and to developments in particular areas, both urban and rural;
( c) Grants, within the framework of the technical assistance programme, and in accord with the specialized agencies and the services of the United :\"ations, of fellowships for study and training to experts from countries affected by the housing shortage, particularly countries where the building industry is sti!l at the purely artisan stage ;
( d) Invitations to the governments of countries supplying building materials to _e;ive some priority to orders connected with the construrtinn of economical housing for low-income groups;
e
Assistance to governments in developing practical methods of financing housing prognmrnes from domestic or external sources.
371st plenary meetinq,
2 Fd,rnarv 1952.
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