Reiterates the need to take, at the national and international levels, measures to promote the right of all persons to an adequate standard of living for themselves and their families, including adequate housing; calls upon all States and international organizations concerned to pay special attention to the realization of the right to adequate housing in carrying out measures to develop national shelter strategies and settlement improvement programmes within the framework of the global strategy for shelter to the year 2000; requests the Economic and Social Council and its appropriate functional commissions to keep the question of the right to adequate housing under periodic review.

Adopted 156-0-1, 93rd meeting

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Adopted at the 93rd plenary meeting, 7 Dec. 1987.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 42nd session, Volume 1, 15 September-21 December 1987. - A/42/49. - 1988. - p. 234-235. - (GAOR, 42nd sess., Suppl. no. 49).