With the affordable housing crisis affecting cities from New York to Accra, there has been increased interest in the housing justice agenda across the world. Grassroots mobilizations are pressuring leaders to tackle housing as an urgent issue in their agendas, prior conceptualizations of social housing are being revisited and adapted to generate new proposals, and community-based initiatives are increasingly recognized as a source of innovation and knowledge. New ideas and increasing political will hold promise in turning housing from a multiplier of inequality and exclusion, to a catalyst of equitable and prosperous societies

On Wednesday, April 20th, join the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies and the Urban Democracy Lab for a discussion on community-controlled, publicly-based housing models, and how to make social housing a viable and valuable tool to address today's global housing crisis.

Featured Speakers:

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi - Director, Urban Democracy Lab
  • Aydin Dikerdem - Labour Councillor for Queenstown & Organizer, New Economics Foundation
  • Paula Freire Santoro - Brazilian urbanist & Professor of Urban Planning, Universidade de São Paulo
  • Adam Almeida - Senior Data Analyst, Common Wealth
  • ModeratorDr. Faiza Shaheen – Program Lead on Inequality & Exclusion, the Pathfinders

 

For more information, and to sign up to the event click here.