UN-Habitat has the vision to provide well-planned, well-governed, and efficient cities and human settlements, along with adequate housing, infrastructure, and basic services such as water, energy, and sanitation. The Global Housing Foundation has a special place among the UN-Habitat Partners and also to facilitate the construction of workforce housing projects with local developers, thus achieving success in public-private ventures. It operates under cooperation with local municipal authorities that expand its role within a public-private-governmental endeavor. GHF Develops and Promotes Innovative Solutions for Workforce Housing Challenges.

Global Housing Foundation also supports the World Urban Forum has objectives of raising awareness of sustainable urbanization among stakeholders and constituencies and the general public, improving collective knowledge on sustainable urban development through open and inclusive debate, exchange of best practices and policies, and sharing of lessons learned, promoting collaboration and cooperation between different stakeholders and constituencies engaged in the advancement and implementation of sustainable urbanization.

The Global Housing Foundation has a mandate that a woman must be on the deed to the property which shows that the UN wants the empowerment of women. Global Housing Foundation has a goal to address this market segment of workers that have jobs but no adequate housing. In 2012, GHF signed a partnership agreement with the Ministry of Housing and Land Management of the Republic of Panama to develop a neighborhood of workforce housing in Panama City.