South Africa and the United Nations will host the Habitat III Thematic conference on Informal Settlements from 7 to 8 April 2016 in Pretoria at CSIR Convention Centre in Pretoria under the theme - From slums to integrated safe, resilient and suitable human settlement. Habitat III is the major United Nations Conference on housing and urbanization in the last 20 years. Habitat I took place in 1976, Habitat II in 1996. Habitat III will take place in Ecuador in October 2016. Habitat III is expected to generate a 'New Urban Agenda' for the 21st century. Habitat III will secure a renewed global commitment to addressing housing and sustainable urbanization through the adoption of a forward-looking, action oriented outcome document.
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