By the year 2030, an additional 3 billion people making up about
40 percent of the global population will need housing, according
to UN-HABITAT’s latest flagship report released on Monday,
Financing Urban Shelter: Global Report on Human Settlements
2005. In a world where about 3 billion people, or 50 percent of
the global population, already live in urban areas, UN-HABITAT’s
report predicts that over the next 25 years, more than 2 billion
people will be added to the growing demand for housing, water
supply, sanitation and other urban infrastructure services. What
is critical when considering this number, it says, is the order
of magnitude: Close to 3 billion people, or about 40 percent of
the world’s population by 2030, will need to have housing and
basic infrastructure services. This translates into completing
96,150 housing units per day, the flagship report says. |Related
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