Abstract
The Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1988, calls for a fundamental shift in governments' role in housing. Rather than attempting to provide housing directly, a policy that has usually failed, governments should play an enabling role. They should facilitate, energize, and support the activities of the private sector, both formal and informal, in housing development. This shift necessarily requires governments to obtain a broader overview of the housing sector as a whole and to better understand the mechanisms governing housing-sector performance. There is widespread recognition among governments that this requires better data and better, policy-oriented analysis of such data.
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