Our Vision: A world where everyone has a safe and secure home.

Our Mission

Through our global networks, we find innovative housing solutions from around the world.

We act as a catalyst for change by strengthening them and supporting them to scale up to help more people facing housing injustice.

Residents of Saffron Heath, which is a Passivhaus Development, in Leicester, UK

Our Values

Caring

  • We are committed to social justice and equality of opportunity.
  • We are focussed on sustainable outcomes for people, both now and for future generations.
  • We value diversity and strive to achieve equality and inclusion, challenging discrimination and proactively targeting help to those in greatest need.

Innovative

  • We encourage fresh thinking and practical and scalable solutions to housing policy and practice.
  • We tackle difficult, sometimes unfashionable issues, because they matter.
  • We won’t be afraid to fail, and we will learn from our mistakes.

Independent

  • We are impartial, professional, open and act with integrity.
  • We maintain our freedom to focus on issues that are relevant and important.
  • We nurture community resilience and self-reliance.

Our operating principles

Climate Focused

We will act to change that in our own work and the wider housing sector.

Globally minded

We build connections and understanding between people their homes and the planet. We promote adaption and transfer of concepts across contexts and borders, fostering collaboration and free sharing of knowledge.  

Collaborative

We work in partnership with others because together we can have more influence. We work with people who have direct experience of the issues we care about knowing they are well positioned to deliver sustainable change .

An agent for change

We seek to be a catalyst to bring about positive change by influencing policy and practice. We do this by providing opportunities for creative thinking and action.

“I don’t think any other organisation knows housing as broadly as World Habitat does. It also knows about things on the cutting edge, ideas that are just getting going.” 

Julietta Perucca,  Deputy Director of The Shift

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