Anti-discriminatory housing policy and practice

Habitat International Coalition are co-organising an international exchange of social and feminist movements for human rights related to habitat, alongside South African shack dweller movement Abahlali baseMjondolo. This international meeting will create space for in-person exchanges, learning, and solidarity among social and feminist movements working to defend land, housing, and habitat rights. This convergence continues HIC’s global convergence of social and feminist movements, following on from the in-person exchange in Argentina in 2023.

This policy brief from Pathfinders at NYU explores how rapid urbanisation in the DRC capital Kinshasa is increasing inequalities. This report includes a brief history of Kinshasa’s urban development, and unpacks housing inequality contextualized in Kinshasa and how this relates to housing justice. 

The Human Rights and Evictions Network in Chile seeks to prevent and stop forced evictions of informal settlements, promoting and coordinating actions to monitor, establish human rights protocolm, provide legal support and document forced evictions from a human rights perspective.

The Land Policy Observatory, launched by Public Works Studio, is an innovative online platform dedicated to producing and disseminating critical knowledge on land issues in Lebanon. By closely monitoring urban planning institutions, particularly the General Directorate of Urban Planning, the observatory examines laws, decrees, and policies affecting public property, housing, the environment, and urban development. It aims to promote equitable development and spatial justice within Lebanon's policy-making framework.

This article argues that the everyday city-making practices of the ‘unsheltered’ are inextricably linked to the politics of bare citizenship. As those stigmatised become individualised, isolated and undermined, they also are deprived of being part of a collective experience and are deeply challenged to reclaim their agency as entitled citizens.

Grassroots organisations in São Paulo and Lagos are using digital and social media technologies to denounce rights violations and transform discourses about marginalised residents. This IIED-led project aims to uncover, strengthen and create synergies between these practices to advance housing rights.

An open knowledge portal for advocacy on fair housing and spatial justice. Main themes: Awareness material, investigative reports, policies & strategies, data & mapping. By 10 Tooba.

This Resource Guide is the outcome of a Summer Institute on Methodologies for Housing Justice convened by the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy as part of the Housing Justice in Unequal Cities Network. The Resource Guide foregrounds innovative methods that are being used by researchers across academia and activism and explicitly situates such methods in an orientation towards housing justice.