-- The existing and possible roles for the United Nations to provide a forum for addressing additional financial and real estate issues and advising countries on the matter, including existing good practices; -- The need for targeted responses that governments could develop to limit the damage of the current financial crisis and re-establish a healthy real estate market, including the development of post-crisis policy guidelines for both the real estate and financial sectors that will promote stability and sustainability; -- The characteristics that a new real estate market and credit system should have, including collaborative standard setting for increased informational transparency, limitations on the use of complex financial tools, better capital risk allocation models, and policies and actions to sustain investors' confidence and increase citizens' trustThe seminar will in addition discuss the need for more comprehensive policies and action in the housing and land management sector to be developed at the regional and global levels. Policies and action should be directed towards a healthier real estate market, but also look at the possible complementarities between increasing the financial stability of the real estate sector with attempts to also make this market more environmentally sustainable and more socially responsive to the need to provide adequate housing for all.
Contact Information: Contact: Alyssa Nightingale 631.367.8599 anight@att.net