As a country we need to prioritise the acquisition and development of land for settlement purposes if we are to make any impact on the demand for housing.  Between 1994 and 2014 the South African government provided more than 2.5 million houses and some 1.2 million serviced sites, but the housing backlog nevertheless increased over this same period from 1.5 million to 2.1 million units

The oft-cited UN Habitat report on the 1989-1990 urban resettlement programme in Burma which the report estimates affected 1.5 million people (16 percent of the urban population). "...During the early months of 1990 international attention was focused on the Yangon squatter clearance and resettlement programme launched by the Government in 1989. The Mission found that the programme is not limited to Yangon, but has broad national coverage.

The Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) produces new global spatial information, evidence-based analytics describing the human presence on the planet that is based mainly on two quantitative factors: (i) the spatial distribution (density) of built-up structures and (ii) the spatial distribution (density) of resident people. Both of the factors are observed in the long-term temporal domain and per unit area, in order to support the analysis of the trends and indicators for monitoring the implementation of the 2030 Development Agenda and the related thematic agreements.

Recoge textos elaborados en los últimos años por expertos de la CEPAL y por autores externos para la Unidad Conjunta CEPAL/CNUAH de Asentamientos Humanos, en cumplimiento de su programa de trabajo. Los textos se agrupan segun 3 líneas temáticas, 1) Areas críticas para la formulación de políticas de asentamiento humano en América Latina y el Caribe, 2) Metropolización y crisis, y 3) Planificación y gestión del desarrollo nacional: el rol de los gobiernos locales.