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The commitments declared by local and regional governments during the 2026 UCLG World Congress in Tangier, Morocco, lay out the path for strengthened partnerships to advance housing justice. 

A new Provocation by the Hub for Housing Justice launched at WUF13 in Baku calls for designing a financial architecture that can deliver more just and sustainable housing systems. 

In March 2026, the Hub for Housing Justice visited São Paulo, Brazil, to exchange on anti-evictions strategies and identify common lessons

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. 

COP30 opened concrete spaces for bringing housing to the climate debates and negotiations. Drawing on the COP engagement of partners and allies from the Hub for Housing Justice, we discuss what this opening means in terms of opportunities and risk for advancing a justice-oriented housing agenda. 

The Hub for Housing Justice today has launched its first series of collaborative publications: four Provocations to inspire and nurture housing justice efforts.  

At the 2025 United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) retreat in Barcelona, local and regional governments reiterated housing justice as key to addressing today’s most pressing challenges.

A new initiative, the Hub for Housing Justice, has launched online to bring civil society and research organisations together to transform housing systems through a justice-focused approach. The Hub promotes anti-discriminatory housing policies, democratic housing production, sustainable and caring urban infrastructure, and innovative visions for future housing.

Around the world, housing injustice is pushing more than two billion people into housing deprivation. The commodification of land and housing results in displacement, eviction and unhealthy living conditions for the poorest people.

In June 2024, the steering group of the Hub for Housing Justice and key allies came together in London to co-develop the hub’s objectives and scope of work.