Environmental standards should be expanded in housing construction and modernization.
Report informs that Ombretta Tempra, head of UN-Habitat"s Land, Housing and Shelter Section and lead specialist on housing provision, said this at the "Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert Working Group on Adequate Housing for All: Intersessional Meeting on Housing Resilience and Sustainability," held as part of the 13th session of the World Urban Forum (WUF13).
"We will hear more about sustainability and resilience in informal settlements. We have prepared a set of recommendations specifically related to housing construction and reconstruction, or modernization.
"Thus, covering both the supply and demand sides of the market, we want to define comprehensive environmental standards and climate-sensitive frameworks for affordable housing provision.
"We will achieve our goal by promoting context-appropriate building regulations, applying environmental sustainability and resilience standards in housing construction and modernization, accelerating the large-scale, equitable and inclusive modernization of the existing housing stock, including informal settlements, and applying circular economy principles in housing and construction systems," she said.