Publications

COP30 saw an increased recognition of housing as a key lever for climate action. This publication brings together key messages from civil society on the need to advance rights-based, community-led housing policies and practices that tackle structural inequalities, demonstrating that there is no climate justice without housing justice. 

This letter was prepared by the Hub for Housing Justice as part of UCLG's Local Social Covenant. It is a response to the letter, “Local Social Covenant: our commitment to housing,” signed by the Mayors of Montevideo, Rabat, Barcelona, and Mexico City.

Building on the propositions of the housing justice approach, this Provocation outlines guiding principles, recommended actions, and strategies to overcome obstacles to shape financing approaches for housing justice. The reflections provide a starting point to transform the finance architecture in ways that promote housing as a vehicle for fairer and more sustainable societies.

This Provocation is based on the proposition for ‘Housing policy and practice that broaden imaginations for housing futures’, which seeks to advance knowledge production processes that promote more open and diverse visions about where, how, by and for whom housing policies happen.

This Provocation is a collective narrative on why housing is the infrastructure that cities and human settlements need to function, why housing is critical for social and ecological well-being, and why we must understand the fundamentally collective nature of housing.

Based on the proposition ‘Radically democratic forms of housing production’, this Provocation seeks to promote democratic forms of housing production and management by offering an open glossary of different approaches, practices, and concepts that housing movements are already putting forward to democratise housing and democratise through housing.

Housing deprivation can often result from exclusionary housing practices that build on a legacy of oppression, disproportionately impacting groups and geographies that have historically borne the brunt of colonialism, patriarchy, racism and capitalism.