On Monday, 20 September 2010, the UN Economic Commission for Europe's (UNECE) Committee on Housing and Land Management (CHLM) met in Geneva in its 71st session. The meeting discussed the work of the CHLM Bureau and the Housing and Urban Management Advisory Network (HUMAN) since the CHLM's 70th session in September 2009. In its review of the implementation of the programme of work for 2010-2011, the CHLM discussed the status of country housing profiles for Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, a joint UNECE/UNDP/UN-HABITAT housing policy brief project that followed the UNECE profile methodology, and reports from Georgia and Slovakia on how their housing profiles influenced housing policy in their countries.

The work programme discussion on affordable, healthy and ecological housing (AHEH), opened with a keynote presentation by Professor Franz Radermacher, Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing, Germany, on the global context. The UNECE Secretariat outlined the background paper requested by the CHLM Bureau on the need, rationale and main principles and goals to guide any work toward a proposed policy framework convention on AHEH in the UNECE Region. The CHLM decided to proceed with creating a working group to analyze the pros and cons of a possible convention, outline options for scope, objectives and core elements, and propose future steps, with the working group to report to the 72nd session of the CHLM.