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Housing Rights: from Paper to Practice🧵 Here are three examples of organisations fighting to make the right to adequate housing work on the ground; safeguarding communities from eviction, displacement and homelessness over the long term ✏️ https://bit.ly/3TO9a7f
🏠 As part of Energiesprong UK’s Zero Carbon Accelerator, they have developed a new guide that offers practical retrofit pathways to help landlords tackle these complexities while navigating an evolving regulatory landscape. Find out more and get your free copy 👉https://bit.ly/4znGxhs
This International Youth Day we're recognising the protected characteristics of the Equality Act, that says you mustn’t discriminate against people due to their age. For decades La Cigue have helped young people & is now the world’s largest self-managed student cooperative 📎 https://bit.ly/4cw0V6h
"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
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Winners - World Habitat
A showcase of the World Habitat Awards winners: inspiring housing projects from around the globe, sortable by year, region, theme and more
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World Habitat@worldhabitat.bsky.social · 2mo agoA collection of photographs from our 2018 award entrees. #Haiti #Kenya #Japan #Rwanda #Pakistan #London #50yearsofbetterhousingtogether #WHA50
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
📢 We're hiring: Head of people 📢 💡 As we continue to evolve and deliver our strategic ambitions, we're looking for an outstanding head of people to join our senior management group and help shape the next chapter of our organisation. Find out more and apply before Monday 27 July ➡️ buff.ly/kmKbyxL
🏫 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
As Lebanon faces an ever-deepening housing crisis the Housing Justice Network have helped introduce an emergency anti-eviction rent reform bill currently before the Lebanese Parliament. This statement from Hub for Housing Justice sets out the urgent need for international support 🔗 bit.ly/42agQSa
Housing Justice Efforts in Lebanon: Statement of Solidarity
The partners of the Hub for Housing Justice express our unwavering solidarity with the ongoing efforts in Lebanon to advance housing rights and protect communities from displacement.
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🌱 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
Recognising, supporting and empowering collaborative housing providers is a priority for the newly formed 'Collaborative Housing Alliance' who met up recently to step up engagement on the delivery of the 'European Affordable Housing Plan.' Find out more about the next steps 🔗 bit.ly/47SgVND
From pilots to scale: Collaborative housing and the push for long-term affordability - Housing Europe
As the European Union moves into the implementation phase of its European Affordable Housing Plan, including work on the Affordable Housing Act, the housing simplification package, the upcoming pan-Eu...
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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
v2com newswire release an in-depth press kit about Housing NOW. With free downloadable high-res images & video content it shows how the field-proven bamboo modular system delivers earthquake-resistant, low-cost homes for displaced families. 🔗 bit.ly/4bg6Wmr More about Housing NOW 🔗 bit.ly/460roFM
Bamboo Housing Resists 7.7 Earthquake in Conflict-Torn Myanmar, Built for Displaced Families - Blue Temple
Press kit for immediate release – Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma), 2025-09-22 - <p>In March 2025, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar. The country’s second-largest city, Mandalay, was left in ...
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The 'Giving LIFE to Europe’s Clean Energy Transition' brochure includes two Energiesprong initiatives 🌱 LIFE Street HP Reno help people buy heat pumps together through a collective scheme. bit.ly/4ujdLMDGiga Regio Factory helps scale industrialised, high-quality renovation approaches. bit.ly/4bynmHS
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The LIFE Street HP Reno project champions a visionary approach to upgrading residential heating systems through the collective purchasing of heat pumps. This initiative aims to streamline the adoption...
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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
