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At The World Urban Forum (WUF) Eleventh Session in June 2022, hosted by our World Habitat Awards partner UN-Habitat, we presented Public Works Studio with their 2021 World Habitat Gold Award for their project, Housing Monitor. The project provides valuable community tools for equitable housing rights in Beirut.

The presentation was followed with an insightful discussion on the housing crisis in Lebanon and the wider Middle East and how community tools can make housing injustices visible even in complex environments.

It also featured a documentary where residents spoke of the realities of living in Beirut in 2022.

Click here to watch the presentation and discussion in full

Elsewhere at the International Social Housing Festival (ISHF2022) in Helsinki we were delighted to co-host a Collaborative Housing Day with our Co-Habitat network partners and in a separate session

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World Habitat Awards

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Group of Residents Standing Together

Introducing Community Land Trusts in Continental Europe

A model that creates permanently affordable homes for people on low-incomes in Brussels.

Housing Monitor

A housing rights project in Beirut which uses an online reporting tool to monitor and respond to housing injustices, including evictions.

Integrated Community Development for Poverty Reduction

A project that improves the living conditions of remote communities through integrating housing, sanitation, livelihoods and food security.

Hull Women’s Safe Homes

This project is pioneering a home ownership model for charities to provide housing with wrap-around services for women and their children who have experienced domestic abuse.

Módulo Sanitario

Addressing the lack of sanitation in informal settlements, this project installs bathroom and kitchen modules in homes, as well providing families with hygiene kits.

Building Homes Collectively for Better Habitat

After the tsunami in Palu Bay, the organisation Arkom Indonesia supported the local community to manage their own recovery and reconstruction and their safe relocation close to the sea – which provides their primary source of income.

Post-earthquake housing reconstruction

This project uses natural materials and vernacular techniques - combined with design that is participatory, inclusive, and diverse - for tackling housing poverty amongst vulnerable groups.

MiCASiTA: Incremental Financing for Affordable Home Expansion

A phased-construction project in Texas, providing low-cost mortgages that adapt and grow when families expand and extend their homes.

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