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Requeststhe Secretary-General to prepare as settlements and the imperative need of mobilizing soon as possible, and certainly by 1975, a comprehennational and international resources for their improvesive housing survey, in accordance with resolution ment,
2036 (XX), which will place equal emphasis on the
Recognizing further the importance of the housing,
rural and urban sectors of housing, especially considering the needs and problems of the developing building and planning sector in economic and social development and the desirability of according it an countries and taking into account the results of the 1970 round of population and housing censuses; appropriate role in the Second United Nations Development Decade,
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Urgesthat, in the preparation of the strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade, due
Bearing in mind the report and recommendations of attention be given to the problems in the field of the Interregional Seminar on Rural Housing and Comhousing, building and planning, in view of the inmunity Facilities, held at Maracay, Venezuela, from creasingly adverse impact that inadequate housing and 2 to 19 April 1967,44 which suggested that greater community facilities are having upon social and ecoattention should be given to rural housing and environnomic development in rural and urban settlements; mental services in the work undertaken by the Com-
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Further requeststhe Secretary-General to submit mittee on Housing, Building and Planning and the Centre for Housing, Building and Planning, since this to the General Assembly at its twenty-fifth session, on the basis of available material, including data on housing was one of the greatest problems confronting the developing countries in the housing sector,
collected by the International Labour Organisation, a report ascertaining the problems and priorities con-
Recalling its resolution 2036 (XX) of 7 December fronting Member States in the field of housing, building 1965 which concerns, in part, the preparation of bienand planning, and in particular giving information on nial progress reports on the measures taken by Member trends in building and financing costs and the need for States towards the solution of their housing, building low-income housing, rural housing, community facilities and planning problems,
and environmental improvements, together with his
Recalling further Economic and Social Council resoconclusions and recommendations on these matters; lution 1299 (XLIV) of 28 May 1968, in which the
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Decides to consider the question of housing, Council suggested certain changes in the reporting rebuilding and planning as a matter of high prioritjo quirements specified in General Assembly resolution during its twenty-fifth session.
