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"Housing policy is climate policy." This is a recurring key message from the experts we interviewed as part of our campaign exploring solutions to the global housing crisis. If we treat them as separate challenges we risk worsening both crises at the same time. #50yearsofbetterhousingtogether
Custòdia, Catalonia’s first Community Land Bank, is launched 🏘️ In July, World Habitat Award winners Les Juntes, Sostre Civic and La Borda came together with more than 30 other organisations to launch the pioneering initiative. Visit the Custòdia website to find out more - https://custodia.cat/
Nuevos informes sobre 📍 DERECHOS A LA VIVIENDA: concepto, legislación y práctica, además de oportunidades de participación y mucho más. Todo esto y más se incluye en las noticias mundiales sobre vivienda de julio. Consigue tu ejemplar ahora 🔗 https://bit.ly/4pVeWAg
Three Different Legal Tools, One Shared Purpose 🧵 In this month's blog, World Habitat's Patricia Latorre looks at three approaches from Jakarta, Puerto Rico and Czechia aiming to secure people’s right to remain safely and permanently housed. Read the blog ✏️ https://bit.ly/3TO9a7f
What role can NGOs like TECHO play in helping governments improve housing in informal settlements? As Gabriela reminds us, communities cannot wait for perfect policies. Action is needed now, while longer-term solutions are developed.💗 Find out more about Techo ⏩ https://us.techo.org/ #WHA50
New reports on 📍 HOUSING RIGHTS: in concept, law and practice PLUS opportunities for participation and much more is covered in July’s global housing news. Get your copy now 🔗 https://bit.ly/4vWNZ0a
🏫 Blue Temple the organisation behind the World Habitat Award winning project 'Housing NOW' has started work on a 200m² pre-school in an informal settlement south of Yangon, Myanmar. The structure is low cost & resilient to climate crisis disasters. Learn more 🔗 www.blue-temple.com/project/eccd
In this open ‘Legal Tools for Housing Rights’ we present Gugun Muhammad, Mariolga Juliá Pacheco, Barbora Bírová and Julieta Perucca, Deputy Director of The Shift, who have all helped deliver durable, transferable & genuinely protective legal frameworks. Register Today📝 bit.ly/4oXeSzf
The latest positive global housing news is out now to keep you motivated. Find new reports on 📍 Community Land Trusts in Informal Settlements 📍 Creating Meaningful Change and 📍 Free online events plus much more, is covered in this month’s global housing news. Get your copy now 🔗 bit.ly/4fa9HZw
🌍 To mark World Habitat's 50th anniversary, we look forward to sharing the perspectives of colleagues, partners, mentors, and housing champions, and hope they serve as both inspiration and impetus in our shared pursuit of the universal right to a decent home. 👀 Watch this space. world-habitat.org
Join Mariana Gallo and Sally Itani and our partners this Thursday as we will add ‘Closing Reflections on Community-led Housing at #WUF13’ at the Habitat Village, Civil Society Cluster, Stand no. 12 in the Urban Expo. 🌍
World Habitat is thrilled to participate in #WUF13 and we’d love to meet you there. 🏠 Today we host ‘Solutions to the global housing crisis based on Lessons from the last 40 years of the World Habitat Awards’ at the Habitat Village. Find out more 🔗 bit.ly/3PpSrFs #HousingTheWorld
🎉 Upcoming Events, Unlocking Housing Potential and a Focus on Housing Rights are all covered in our latest global housing news plus an exciting development for our World Habitat Awards Network 📉 Get your free copy 🔗 bit.ly/4ukbPm3
🌱 Homelessness is not a choice - it is a consequence! In March, Udraga AjA, launched 'I don't choose homelessness'👩🏽🤝👩🏾 The national campaign, with a number of free guides, brings homelessness practice and social change together. Find out more 🔗 bit.ly/4cvkhZD
❇️ On the Blog - Rethinking Co-Housing as Part of Homelessness Prevention In her latest blog, Ella Hancock shares insights from her recently published research into co-housing as a tool for preventing homelessness. 🗞️ 🔓 Read the blog and get the research📎 bit.ly/4c6ByXP
🎉 Seminarios web inspiradores, las últimas noticias sobre el sector de las personas sin hogar y soluciones a la crisis de asequibilidad son solo algunos de los temas que se abordan en las últimas noticias mundiales sobre vivienda 📉 Consigue tu ejemplar gratuito 🔗 bit.ly/4dAVO6h
🎉Over the past 5 years, #WorldCLTDay has grown into an opportunity for communities around the globe to connect & celebrate. Building on that momentum, the first Global CLT Virtual Summit has been announced — a 6 week series of online events Find out more & register🔗 www.cltweb.org/cltvirtualsu...
🎉 Webinars that inspire, latest homelessness sector news, answers to the affordability crisis and advice on financing are just some of the areas covered in the latest global news 📉 Get your free copy 🔗 bit.ly/4m1DHbT
In a time of forced displacement and as the war in Ukraine passed its 4th anniversary, 2024 World Habitat Award Winner, CO-HATY, have been recognised for their contribution to socially responsible architecture — creating housing for those who lost their homes. 🤝🌱 Find out more 🔗 bit.ly/4cuF9AZ
The Unforgivable Impact of Homelessness 👇 New analysis by the Platform for Social Housing, shows a person freezes to death on the street almost everyday in the Czech Republic & people with experience of homelessness die sixteen years younger than other people. 📉 Read the Analysis ➡️ bit.ly/3OW8dYg
This International Women’s Day 2026 it's important to highlight gender inequality. In this blog World Habitat Award winners FUNDASAL explore how housing exclusion in El Salvador’s historic ‘mesones’ (a type of boarding house) disproportionately affects women. Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/4cuTtcy #IWD2026
👭 This ‘International Women’s Day 2026’ we’re recognising the Equality Act, that says you must not discriminate against someone because of their gender and celebrate our 2026 World Habitat Awards Winner – Build Back Safer, by CARE in Vanuatu. 🏆 Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/4bFHb0s #IWD2026
This week Geert De Pauw took members of the Collaborative Housing Alliance to see CLT Molenbeek, Brussels, the first of its kind in the city. The Alliance represents proven non-profit, non-speculative & community-driven responses to Europe’s housing crisis Read more about the CLT ▶️ bit.ly/4kTQEEb
These days it’s a rare but wonderful thing to see your name in full-colour print! Thanks to the lovely people at The Flow Trip we get to see World Habitat and a beautiful image of 2025 Gold awardees Tanzania Women Architects for Humanity (TAWAH) in their ‘Home Issue’ presented by Patagonia 🙇♀️
Since 1985 the World Habitat Awards have become a catalyst for advancing housing solutions worldwide. As Ombretta Tempra UN-HABITAT says ‘…we continue to count on the work of the awards to expand the menu of housing solutions that we can learn from.’ Enter the awards🔗 world-habitat.org/awards2027/
🏘️ Conventional approaches to housing may no longer be enough! We are now accepting applications for the 2027 awards and welcome early-stage ideas that have been proven in practice but might not yet be well known 💙 Find out more 🔗 bit.ly/3ZfaNug or Enter before the 4th March 🔗 bit.ly/4qkuzj7
🏆 Applications to the 2027 awards, in partnership with UN-Habitat, are now open. Will you apply or can you help us to discover practical, high-quality approaches to pressing housing issues 🏠 Find out more🚨 world-habitat.org/awards/how-t... or enter the Awards🚨 world-habitat.org/awards2027/
‘You’ve refused to treat housing exclusion as a personal failing & instead are addressing the policies & systems that create it….’ 🤝 🏆At the 2026 World Habitat Awards celebration Leilani Farha @maketheshift.bsky.social addressed the winners. Enter the 2027 Awards 🔗 world-habitat.org/awards2027/
At World Habitat we know the solutions to solving homelessness are out there & show with the right policies and support, we can end homelessness & create a better world. If you're involved or are aware of an innovative approach we'd love to hear from you. Enter the 2027 Awards 🖇️ bit.ly/4qkuzj7
