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World Cities Report 2026: The Global Housing Crisis: Pathways to Action
The current global housing crisis is the outcome of decades of insufficient investment, rapid urbanization, economic instability, and displacement caused by conflict and disasters. Recent global estimates indicate that… Read more
Annual Report
Annual Report 2025
The 2025 Annual Report presents how UN-Habitat advanced housing-led sustainable urban development as a foundation for more inclusive, resilient and sustainable cities. Framed around the principle that the future of… Read more
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Reducing Food Loss and Waste in Cities: Legal Pathways for Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Development
2026
This brief examines how legal and governance frameworks can reduce food loss and waste in cities. Drawing on case studies from Milan, Singapore, Vienna, South Korea, France, Rwanda, Brazil, and India, it offers practical legal pathways for policymakers, urban planners, and legal practitioners.
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Policy and Strategy
Smart Inclusive Transitions for an Equitable Urban Future in Suwon
2026
Suwon is the first city to apply the Smart Inclusive Transition (SIT) framework, an implementation adaptation of the Global Urban Monitoring Framework (UMF). This report tracks the city’s progress across five SIT pillars, identifies critical strengths and gaps, and demonstrates how SIT is operationalized into practice through co-production of basic urban services and platforms. It provides a practical monitoring framework to pursue people-centred smart and equitable cities; enabling cities…
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Policy and Strategy
STILL FAR FROM HOME – A Comparative Review of IDP Housing Solution Policies in Five Crisis Affected Countries
2026
Still Far From Home examines how housing policies shape durable solutions for internally displaced persons across five crisis-affected countries. The report argues that lasting solutions require moving beyond housing construction toward strengthening the broader systems—land, services, governance, and livelihoods—that enable displaced communities to achieve long-term stability and inclusion.
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Technical Report
UN-Habitat Catalogue of Solutions 2026-2029
2026
UN-Habitat’s Catalogue of Solutions presents the organization’s portfolio of tested tools, methodologies and advisory support designed to help countries, cities and communities address today’s most pressing urban challenges. The catalogue brings together solutions developed through decades of UN-Habitat’s global experience, providing practical pathways for advancing inclusive, resilient and sustainable urban development.
These solutions respond to the urgent need to improve…
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These solutions respond to the urgent need to improve…
Global Report
Agenda to Action: Implementation of the New Urban Agenda in Nine Cities Across the Globe
2026
This report documents how nine cities across Africa, Asia-Pacific, Arab States, Eastern Europe and Latin America have implemented the New Urban Agenda through integrated planning, multi-level governance, and capacity-building. It captures lessons, mind-shifts, and implementation pathways that accelerate SDG 11 and sustainable urban transformation
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Toolkits, Manuals and Guides
Evaluating the Impact of New Urban Legislation: A Guide to Ex-Ante Analysis
2026
This guide is designed to be adaptable to different legal, institutional, and resource contexts. It may be applied at various stages of the legislative cycle, including during the drafting of new laws, the revision of existing legislation, or the evaluation of proposed amendments. While the full methodology is intended for comprehensive impact assessments, elements of the guide can also be applied in a simplified manner where time, data, or institutional capacity is limited. By offering a…
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Document
Programme_HLM Midterm Review of New Urban Agenda
Posted on July 11th, 2026
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Press Release
Delivering housing and transforming slums is key to achieving SDG 11, new UN report says
Posted on July 9th, 2026
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Global Report
SDG 11 Global Report 2026: Key facts and messages
Posted on July 9th, 2026
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Global Report
SDG 11 Global Report 2026: Housing at the Centre of Sustainable Cities and Communities
Posted on July 9th, 2026
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Document
Chair’s summary of the ministerial meeting on the New Urban Agenda held at the thirteenth session of the World Urban Forum
Posted on July 8th, 2026
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Appendix 2. Technical Specifications of the International Section
Posted on July 2nd, 2026
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