This Policy Framework presents an outline of the main challenges, priorities, and implementation mechanisms for housing policies globally. The context and policy recommendations provided in this Policy Framework are structured along four outcome dimensions: accessibility to services, habitability, affordability, and security of tenure. These outcomes are the result of an enabling housing policy environment that promotes private sector, third sector, and self-help community-driven housing interventions. This environment is defined as “the set of government interventions that have a critical and measurable effect on the performance of the housing sector”. Since housing is a single component of larger associated sectors such as finance, real estate, and construction, these policy recommendations are intended to be open and inclusive of all policies that have a broad housing impact. “There are five key policy instruments that have an inordinate effect on housing sector performance: 1) adjudication of property rights in land and housing, 2) development and regulation of housing finance institutions; 3) administration of housing subsidies; 4) Provision and maintenance of residential infrastructure; and 5) regulation of the land and housing development”. Each of the dimensions below relies on a combination of enabling policies.