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Celebrating 40 years of the World Habitat Awards: 1985-2025
Date: Thursday, 12 June 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: Royal College of Physicians, London
What is the conference about?
It’s estimated that 318 million people are homeless around the world, and the numbers are rising steeply. Yet this is a global problem that can be solved. For 40 years, the World Habitat Awards, in partnership with UN-Habitat, have recognised and celebrated transformative solutions that are successfully ending homelessness. This year, we’re convening a landmark conference bringing together people behind those solutions and some of the world’s leading thinkers to debate what works and chart a course for the future.
The day will conclude with a ceremony to celebrate the 2025 World Habitat Awards winners.
Why should I attend?
Gain a global perspective: Learn how proven, award-winning projects across the UK, Europe and beyond are successfully addressing homelessness in diverse contexts.
Deep dive into innovation: Explore current key trends, policies, and cutting-edge innovations in prevention and response.
Shape the future of housing policy: Engage with policymakers, funders, philanthropic leaders, activists and CEOs of homelessness services, to influence the development of effective and sustainable solutions.
Take away practical insights: Learn how to adapt successful approaches into actionable strategies and solutions within your own community or organisation.
Connect and network: Strengthen your work and drive meaningful change alongside key stakeholders, thought-leaders and practitioners from around the world.
Who is the conference for?
- Policymakers at all levels of government
- Social impact investors, funders and philanthropic organisations
- CEOs and senior leaders of homelessness service provision
- Researchers and academics focused on housing and homelessness
- Community leaders, activists and advocates
Invited Speakers:
- Anacláudia Rossbach, Executive Director of UN-Habitat
- Leilani Farha, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing and Global Director of The Shift
- Matt Downie MBE, CEO Crisis
- Freek Spinnewijn, Director of FEANTSA
