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England’s Community Housing Fund – letter to Housing Minister
As part of the nationwide campaign to renew the multi-million Community Housing Fund in England and for it to …
More of the same won’t solve housing ‘crisis’
The Prime Minister was half-right yesterday when she said that building more houses every year will address th…
Our passion is to share the solutions to housing problems
Changing our name and identity from Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) to World Habitat has been a …
Becoming World Habitat
Red Cross, Amnesty, Médecins Sans Frontières. Hear those names and you know exactly who those organisations ar…
Who’s to blame?
The Grenfell Tower disaster has laid bare the wilful demise of Social Housing. Tenancy and physical conditions…
Making sure it never happens again
The three weeks since the Grenfell Tower fire have left me sure that this is the most significant moment for U…
Grenfell Tower
The most important purpose of a home is to keep people safe. The events at Grenfell Tower in West London this …
Life in Africa’s biggest slum
David visited Kibera in May and discovered even more about Umande Trust’s brilliant eco-sanitation proje…
Turning the tide
I remember the very place and day it happened. In 2014 I was in Los Angeles when my view of homelessness chan…
The promise of the New Urban Agenda?
It was 25 years since I had visited Quito. The last time I was a young backpacker exploring South America for…