The UN Approach to Albany's Waterfront?

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/HRC25Housing.aspx

My favorite quote from this page: 
"Where settlements pose risks to environmental resources, like coastlines, parks, lakes, rivers and wetlands, Rolnik suggested that States consult the populations concerned and ensured their genuine participation to explore options to protect both the environment and the tenure security and livelihoods of inhabitants. Participatory land readjustment and incremental upgrading of settlements along water bodies, including improved sanitation and waste disposal services, can address both concerns, for example. The local government of Surabaya in Indonesia has taken successive measures in this direction, via the Settlement and Urban Infrastructure Strategies programme, established in 2010. It improved the conditions of infrastructure such as pavements, drainage and waste-management in the Bozem Morokrembangan region, including of households located along the riverbank areas.

In other countries, the social function of property was promoted. Inclusive urban planning was instrumental in promoting integrated communities and ensuring that well-located housing was available to the poor. Inclusionary zoning requires that a proportion of neighbourhood property be allocated to low-income dwellings, and parcelling and development regulations require that a proportion of new housing developments is reserved for low-income housing, for example in some cities in the United States.