International Year of Shelter for the Homeless : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Urges Governments to demonstrate renewed political commitment to the shelter needs of the poor and disadvantaged by taking significant measures before 1987, including providing access to land and ensuring security of tenure in squatter settlements, adapting codes and regulations to the needs of the people, facilitating community participation, improving access to credit and loans and promoting local and affordable building materials; also urges Governments: (a) to prepare or review shelter strategies, taking into consideration the options set out in the documentation for the Year; (b) to prepare a programme to implement projects geared to their chosen shelter strategies; requests all Governments, bilateral and multilateral aid agencies and financial institutions to review their policies and raise the priority of shelter and settlements improvement programmes; appeals to all Governments to make or increase voluntary contributions to the Year and to all international agencies and financial institutions to provide effective financial and other support to the programme of the Year; decides to devote at least 2 plenary meetings at its 42nd session, in 1987, to issues related to shelter, in observance of the International Year of Shelter for the Homeless.

Adopted without vote, 100th plenary meeting

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Adopted at the 100th plenary meeting, 8 Dec. 1986.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 41st session, 16 September-19 December 1986. - A/41/53. - 1987. - p. 143-144. - (GAOR, 41st sess., Suppl. no. 53).