At the UNECE Glasgow Conference on City Living, the delegates welcomed intergovernmental dialogue in support of the implementation of the Geneva UN Charter on Sustainable Housing, endorsed by UNECE on 16 April 2015, recognised and supported sustainable housing policies and programmes as a means for living through four principles:
(a) economic and financial sustainability, meaning stable financing and use of innovative instruments for housing construction and renovation,
(b) social sustainability through inclusion and participation, meaning the contribution of housing policies to social cohesion in cities,
(c) environmental sustainability, meaning sustainable use of natural resources and addressing issues of climate change, and
(d) cultural adequacy meaning the implementation of housing policies considers cultural context and local conditions.
The delegates unanimously adopted the declaration that was later read into the records of the UNECE Committee of Urban Development, Housing and Land Management at the Committee Meeting of 2-4 October 2019