SUSTAINABLE HOUSING FOR ALL THROUGH PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS: MYTH OR REALITY?

Abstract

Sustainability is a societal goal that relates to the ability of people to safely co-exist on earth for a long time. The 1983 UN Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission) had a big influence on how wenow use the term "sustainability". The Commission's 1987 report, Our Common Future, defines sustainable development as that which "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". The report helped bring "sustainability" into the mainstream of policy discussions. It popularised the concept of "sustainable development" (Purvis, Mao & Robinson, 2019). Almost 30 years later, a global agenda to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) was adopted during the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. There are 17 goals in this new agenda, shown in Figure 1. The SDGs take into account that action in one area will affect outcomes in other areas and that development must balance social, economic and environmental sustainability (United Nations Development Programme, 2020).