From May 31 to June 11, 1976 in Vancouver, Canada, the United Nations held the first “Habitat” [Habitat I] conference where the Vancouver Declaration on Human Settlements was signed. The United Nations began to recognize “the magnitude and consequences of rapid urbanization“. This marks one of the earliest meetings defining the “sustainability” of the looming UN aganda.
Habitat I “provided the foundations for the birth, in 1978, of the United Nations Human Settlements Program or UN-Habitat” which “now promotes socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities“. [2, 5] Think “15 minute cities”. [3, 4]
This conference forms the roots of Agenda 21 & Sustainable Development Goals, where they identified private land ownership as a threat to equity on the planet. [1]
The agreement stated that “land cannot be treated as an ordinary asset controlled by individuals” and that private land ownership is “a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth, therefore contributes to social injustice.”… “Public control of land use is therefore indispensable,” the U.N. declaration said, a prelude to the World Economic Forum’s now infamous 2017 “prediction” that by 2030, “you’ll own nothing and be happy.” [6]
Seems since 1990 “ownership” or property rights have been an illusion in the US – unbeknownst to the public.