These articles from the CitiScope website (a website funded by the MacArthur, Rockefeller, Ford, and Kresge foundations) explains further what UN Habitat III hopes to accomplish, and how the policies put forth therein will affect your country, state, and city or town.
The New Urban Agenda will be the outcome document agreed upon at the Habitat III cities conference in October 2016. In turn, it will guide the efforts around urbanization of a wide range of actors — nation states, city and regional leaders, international development funders, United Nations programmes and civil society — for the next 20 years. Inevitably, this agenda will also lay the groundwork for policies and approaches that will extend, and impact, far into the future.
When one reads further, it is easy to see how these UN goals and subsequent decrees, although supposedly not binding on any one nation, can help set the agenda for many rules being made today, and could be the impetus for major changes to constitutions — changes that may guarantee housing, and which, via federal government interference, reach down into the cities and towns of the USA.
The United Nations’ current thinking on global urbanization is summed up in the Habitat Agenda: Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements, the outcome document agreed upon in 1996 at the Habitat II conference. It called for adequate shelter for all and sustainable human settlements in an urbanizing world.
Since then, over 100 countries have adopted constitutional rights to adequate housing, a major success of the Habitat Agenda. At the same time, however, international aid organizations and bilateral development agencies have steadily reduced their investments in cities and slashed their urban programmes. These are trends that have challenged the full implementation of the Habitat Agenda.
The bottom line is, the climate change hoax was created by oil magnate (now deceased) Maurice Strong to create a unifying factor under which people could be convinced for the need of world government. The article praises the emergence of “mega-regions” as opposed to traditional political subdivisions such as towns and cities, and states, “The New Urban Agenda will highlight three operational enablers, collectively being referred to by the UN-Habitat leadership as the “three-legged” approach: local fiscal systems, urban planning, and basic services and infrastructure.”
UN policies are now being adopted federally under the guise of “sustainability”, the justification for government interference in how humans live… the preferred model being the promotion of “walkable cities”, with allowance for little or no further development of rural lands. True, while it is “soft law”, it is a “trickle-down” sort of policy that comes with federal money, but embedded nevertheless into the lexicon of most local planning boards. The term is “urbanization” and many rural towns are resisting it because it is not wanted, not needed, and threatens to become a tax burden to residents as well as attract undesirables to areas that currently enjoy little crime.
Every town in NH has a “master plan” which contain examples of urbanization, such as Bedford’s “overlay district”. Certainly Bedford’s voters had no idea the origins of the philosophy of urbanism before they voted for the overlay district.
Related articles on the web of UN bureaucracy, universities, and foundations which drive the urbanism agenda:
What is Habitat III