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Article: SECOND COMMITTEE TOLD THAT 35 MILLION NEW HOMES MUST BE BUILT ANNUALLY OVER NEXT QUARTER CENTURY
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 4 -- The United Nations issued the following press release:
An estimated 35 million new homes with the attendant infrastructure and services must be built annually over the next 25 years in order to accommodate the burgeoning number of urban dwellers in cities from Calcutta to Rio de Janeiro, Sudan's representative told the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) today, as it began considering implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat).
Speaking on behalf of the "Group of 77" developing countries and China, she said urban sprawl was ...