وإذ تنوه بما قامت به الهيئات المنشأة بموجب معاهدات الأمم المتحدة، ولا سيما اللجنة المعنية بالحقوق الاقتصادية والاجتماعية والثقافية، من عمل على تعزيز الحقوق المتصلة بالسكن الملائم،
Welcoming the inclusion of “adequate shelter” in the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development as an element for achieving socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable development, and recalling the resolve of the Heads of State and Government expressed in the Millennium Declaration to have achieved, by 2020, a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers,