In its resolution A/RES/63/221 entitled “Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UNHABITAT)”, the General Assembly “invites the Governing Council of UN-HABITAT to keep under review developments in the housing finance systems in view of the current financial crisis, and further decides to explore the possibility of convening a high level event of the General Assembly on this subject.” As a follow up the theme of the 22nd Session of the Governing Council of UN-HABITAT, was “Promoting affordable housing finance systems in an urbanizing world in the face of the global financial crisis and climate change” and the theme paper of that title was published on the UN-HABITAT web-site as a pre-session document (HSP/GC/22/4).