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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · Oct 3
🌍 World Habitat has a new online home!

For the past few months we have been working hard and we are pleased our new website is now live and now in more languages 🌐 as well as an improved user experience ✨

👉 Take a look 🔗 world-habitat.org
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🎉Minvu Chile celebrates 10 years of their Rural Habitability Programme!

🏡Last month, the Minister of Housing & Urbanism opened a special online event to mark impact in rural housing policy
🌾Mariana Gallo congratulated the team & highlighted the innovative approach.

Find out more ▶️ bit.ly/49FZTEg
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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🪴If you’re thinking about how social investment around housing might drive your impact and contribute to resolving the UK housing crisis then this is the session for you. Explore how funders & organisations are using social investment to address housing challenges.

Book your place 🔜 bit.ly/47HA2JE
November 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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🏠 On 25 November, join World Habitat and ministries, municipalities, and partners from across Central and Eastern Europe 🌍 to exchange ideas and drive housing-led approaches 💡with Alena Vachnová, Chair of the Board of Directors at Foundation DEDO, Slovakia

📅 Register now 👉 bit.ly/4oQS7f1
November 7, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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🏘️The Housing Justice Network influencing UN discussions!

Formed 2023, with our support, the network unites grassroots organisations across Southwest Asia & North Africa to promote housing & land rights. Their report on people-centred land policies is now influencing UN discussions▶️ bit.ly/43LOejt
November 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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How Much Progress Have We Made on Housing for All?

With the #UrbanOctober focus on the future of cities, our latest blog by our CEO David Ireland explores how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have impacted urban life around the world.

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November 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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✨Los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible, una nueva era para las soluciones locales y cómo abordar la vivienda asequible y el cambio climático son algunos de los temas que se tratan en la Actualización Mensual de octubre, ¡y mucho más!

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November 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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🏘️As #UrbanOctober comes to a close a new IIED report shows that not only are forced evictions a handbrake on urban resilience by increasing vulnerabilities of communities, but they also undermine carbon reduction targets.

Find out more and download the research ▶️ bit.ly/47hozS4
November 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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✨Sustainable Development Goals, a new era for local solutions and how to tackle affordable housing and climate change are all covered in October’s Monthly Update + much much more
📖 Get your free copy ▶️ bit.ly/3Jv5h2g
October 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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🌍 In parts of Europe we are seeing a political shift, where the language of ‘personal responsibility’ is replacing systemic thinking.
🏘️At our ‘Homelessness and Affordability Conference’ our expert panel discussed what it really takes to end homelessness.

Watch the session in full ▶️ bit.ly/473FUxB
October 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Yesterday David Ireland and Adam Challis were guests at the launch of ‘Good Place Lettings.’

🏘️The joint venture between national homelessness charity Crisis and Homes for Good, aims to bring more social purpose to the private rental market in London.

🔎 Find out more 👉 bit.ly/4nn4fTP
October 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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🏘️ The UK is facing a deepening housing crisis 📉. New figures show record numbers are now living in temporary accommodation🏚️. We know there are providers are showing the Private Rented Sector (PRS) can deliver secure, affordable homes at scale.

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October 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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This week’s Big Issue is out today! Inside:

🇫🇮 Be more Finland
🚆 Will new train stations save Britain?
🤖 The rise of the machines

Pick up a copy today, and read a sneak peek here. 👀
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October 20, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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This #UrbanOctober and #WorldHomelessDay we are clear;

🔊 Homelessness is not an individual failing, it is a structural issue.

Find out more about primary prevention 📖 bit.ly/3WdQYlA

#HousingIsAHumanRight #SystemChange
October 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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✨ This #WorldHomelessDay we’re inviting you to take 20 minutes to listen to Matt Downie CEO Crisis on why it’s game time for the housing and homelessness sector.

Here Matt reminds us why we must remove the exclusions that create and sustain homelessness💫

Watch his speech▶️ bit.ly/4ob49iW
October 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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🌏 Across the globe, aid workers are increasingly facing criminalisation. The case of Jasmin Jerusalem exposes how baseless terrorism charges are being used against NGOs.

Here David Ireland calls for greater protection for those delivering life-saving support. 📖 🔗 world-habitat.org/blog/from-li...
October 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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🌍 World Habitat has a new online home!

For the past few months we have been working hard and we are pleased our new website is now live and now in more languages 🌐 as well as an improved user experience ✨

👉 Take a look 🔗 world-habitat.org
October 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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In early 2025, 4 groups from the Hub for Housing Justice came together to explore propositions for a housing justice framework: In this event, reps of each of working group will discuss how they were developed, the key messages & calls to action & how they form an advocacy strategy🔗 bit.ly/3V8tqhx
Launch event | Housing Justice Provocations
Join the launch event for the first series of collaborative publications from the Hub for Housing Justice: four Provocations to inspire and nurture housing justice efforts.
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September 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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In Scotland there are more than 47,000 empty homes

🏠 At Homes for Good they are working with the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership and Shelter to bring empty homes back in to use.

Here Barry Sweeney shows us their recent restoration and talks about what it means for tenants.
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Restoration at Dyke Street, Glasgow
Barry Sweeney at Homes for Good talks about their work on bringing empty properties back into use.
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September 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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💫 New research calls for community led alternatives to traditional housing development across Europe
🪨 Led by the Community Land Trust Network it shows how & why community stewardship should be incorporated into planning, procurement & long-term management of new housing.
Read more▶️ bit.ly/42dJsKG
New research on community-led place stewardship in large housing developments
Research shares case studies, models and benefits of incorporating community-led stewardship into management of facilities and utilities on housing developments
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September 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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⛈️ New $9 million fund for climate adaptation and resilience

💫 Led by ClimateWorks Foundation, the A&R Fund is inviting bold, locally-driven solutions as it looks to direct resources to communities facing extreme heat and other climate shocks.

Find out more▶️ bit.ly/47YbrSm
September 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Here 2,197 cooperatives, supply homes to around 5% of the country’s households.

Since winning a Gold World Habitat Award, FUCVAM, has expanded their reach and has been successful in promoting their approach to scale up community led housing solutions.

📖 Find out more ▶️ bit.ly/41UPv79
September 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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What the world can learn from Uruguay
🏠 In the global housing crisis too few have taken crucial steps to help the vulnerable. Uruguay is an exception. Research shows its due to the state, cooperative federations & non-profits recognising the importance of sustained public support. bit.ly/425YToh
South-South Cooperation: international transfer of the FUCVAM model of mutual aid housing cooperatives - World Habitat
FUCVAM is a federation of mutual aid housing cooperatives, and is the largest, oldest and most active social movement working on issues of housing and urban development in Uruguay. In 2001 a South-Sou...
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September 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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📝 New research shows potential of empty buildings
Disused spaces are being reimagined as affordable homes breathing life back into communities.

We’re calling on councils & landowners: act now, unlock empty buildings & help deliver good quality, affordable housing for all. Read More ▶️ bit.ly/3VmY7PU
Empty Spaces to Homes Research - Habitat for Humanity GB
Discover our research on how repurposing publicly owned empty buildings can help tackle homelessness and the housing crisis across the UK.
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September 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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✨ Today, we’re inviting you to listen to Leilani Farhi, Global Director of the Shift on why we can’t wait for urgent housing solutions. At our conference she reminded us that where it is difficult to feel hopeful & comfortable with the global outlook, there is hope. 💫

Watch now▶️ bit.ly/4oU7ioR
Leilani Farha - The Shift - Key Note Speaker World Habitat Homelessness and Affordability Conference
Leilani, Global Director of the Shift, talks movingly about the seemingly impossible political moment we are in, where the notion of ‘home’ and its central importance to humanity seems to have been abandoned, letting unaffordability and homelessness run wild.
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September 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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✨ A Defining Moment: Why Urgent Housing Solutions Can’t Wait ✨

In this issue:
1️⃣ Reimagining, rebuilding + reforming housing
2️⃣ Brazil celebrates a historic win
3️⃣ New research on community-led housing in Europe
4️⃣ Lessons we can learn from Uruguay

+ much more
Get your copy ▶️ bit.ly/3JCgKge
August 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM