Working Group 1 - Explanatory Documents
Explanatory Documents
Long Form Brochure: Land Rights and Land Value Capture
Short Form Brochure: Land Rights and Land Value Capture
Securing Opportunity and Basic Services for All
| The failure to adopt, at all levels, appropriate rural and urban land policies and land management practices remains a primary cause of inequity and poverty. –Section B.55, UN Habitat II Action Agenda |
1. Justice: People’s Right to the Value They Create
The UN Habitat Action Agenda adopted at the Istanbul conference in 1996 states:
The failure to adopt, at all levels, appropriate rural and urban land policies and land management practices remains a primary cause of inequity and poverty. It is also the cause of increased living costs, the occupation of hazard-prone land, environmental degradation and the increased vulnerability of urban and rural habitats, affecting all people, especially disadvantaged and vulnerable groups, people living in poverty and low-income people. |
Land is the birthright of all, not just a few. It includes farmland and city sites, oil, minerals and forests—indeed, all natural resources. Land enables labor to produce wealth and is thus the ultimate recourse of the unemployed. Those denied their
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