Nga urges housing action At Muscat's Habitat Day

Oct 5

Introduced as UN-Habitat Assembly president, Nga Kor Ming joins the Muscat World Habitat Day observance remotely from Malaysia. Heard through Arabic interpretation, he calls adequate housing a basic right and foundation for development, describes deprivation, informal settlements, missing water and sanitation and health risks, and urges governments to prioritize housing, cooperate with the private sector and plan inclusive, sustainable communities. He closes by calling for joint effort so people everywhere can obtain adequate housing. The imperfectly rendered statistics are not replaced with figures from his published text.

Joining Muscat's 5 October 2026 World Habitat Day opening virtually from Malaysia, UN-Habitat Assembly president Nga Kor Ming calls for adequate housing to be prioritized as a basic right and foundation for development. His interpreted address urges public-private cooperation, water and sanitation, health protection and well-planned, inclusive communities. The published address and broadcast interpretation do not render every statistic identically; his policy call is established without resolving those figures.