UN–Habitat is mandated to promote adequate housing for all and sustainable urbanisation. Affordability is one of the seven elements of the right to adequate housing as the cost of housing should not threaten or compromise the occupants’ enjoyment of other human rights1. It is thus incumbent upon UN–Habitat to support and promote housing finance sector development and housing finance inclusion, and to assist member states in this regard.

In the sequence of the Resolution Approval, steps were made to mobilize resources and UN-Habitat’s Housing and Slum Upgrading Branch is now in the process of implementing the GHS at national level, starting with six pilot countries.