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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Housing Rights: from Paper to Practice🧵 Here are three examples of organisations fighting to make the right to adequate housing work on the ground; safeguarding communities from eviction, displacement and homelessness over the long term ✏️ bit.ly/3TO9a7f

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🏠 As part of Energiesprong UK’s Zero Carbon Accelerator, they have developed a new guide that offers practical retrofit pathways to help landlords tackle these complexities while navigating an evolving regulatory landscape. Find out more and get your free copy 👉https://bit.ly/4znGxhs

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This International Youth Day we're recognising the protected characteristics of the Equality Act, that says you mustn’t discriminate against people due to their age. For decades La Cigue have helped young people & is now the world’s largest self-managed student cooperative 📎 bit.ly/4cw0V6h

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"Housing policy is climate policy." This is a recurring key message from the experts we interviewed as part of our campaign exploring solutions to the global housing crisis. If we treat them as separate challenges we risk worsening both crises at the same time. #50yearsofbetterhousingtogether

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Custòdia, Catalonia’s first Community Land Bank, is launched 🏘️ In July, World Habitat Award winners Les Juntes, Sostre Civic and La Borda came together with more than 30 other organisations to launch the pioneering initiative. Visit the Custòdia website to find out more - custodia.cat

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Nuevos informes sobre 📍 DERECHOS A LA VIVIENDA: concepto, legislación y práctica, además de oportunidades de participación y mucho más. Todo esto y más se incluye en las noticias mundiales sobre vivienda de julio. Consigue tu ejemplar ahora 🔗 bit.ly/4pVeWAg

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Three Different Legal Tools, One Shared Purpose 🧵 In this month's blog, World Habitat's Patricia Latorre looks at three approaches from Jakarta, Puerto Rico and Czechia aiming to secure people’s right to remain safely and permanently housed. Read the blog ✏️ bit.ly/3TO9a7f

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

What role can NGOs like TECHO play in helping governments improve housing in informal settlements? As Gabriela reminds us, communities cannot wait for perfect policies. Action is needed now, while longer-term solutions are developed.💗 Find out more about Techo ⏩ us.techo.org #WHA50

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

New reports on 📍 HOUSING RIGHTS: in concept, law and practice PLUS opportunities for participation and much more is covered in July’s global housing news. Get your copy now 🔗 bit.ly/4vWNZ0a

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Chartered Institute of Housing @cihhousing.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

📢 We're hiring: Head of people 📢 💡 As we continue to evolve and deliver our strategic ambitions, we're looking for an outstanding head of people to join our senior management group and help shape the next chapter of our organisation. Find out more and apply before Monday 27 July ➡️ buff.ly/kmKbyxL

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🏫 Blue Temple the organisation behind the World Habitat Award winning project 'Housing NOW' has started work on a 200m² pre-school in an informal settlement south of Yangon, Myanmar. The structure is low cost & resilient to climate crisis disasters. Learn more 🔗 www.blue-temple.com/project/eccd

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

In this open ‘Legal Tools for Housing Rights’ we present Gugun Muhammad, Mariolga Juliá Pacheco, Barbora Bírová and Julieta Perucca, Deputy Director of The Shift, who have all helped deliver durable, transferable & genuinely protective legal frameworks. Register Today📝 bit.ly/4oXeSzf

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The latest positive global housing news is out now to keep you motivated. Find new reports on 📍 Community Land Trusts in Informal Settlements 📍 Creating Meaningful Change and 📍 Free online events plus much more, is covered in this month’s global housing news. Get your copy now 🔗 bit.ly/4fa9HZw

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🌍 To mark World Habitat's 50th anniversary, we look forward to sharing the perspectives of colleagues, partners, mentors, and housing champions, and hope they serve as both inspiration and impetus in our shared pursuit of the universal right to a decent home. 👀 Watch this space. world-habitat.org

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Join Mariana Gallo and Sally Itani and our partners this Thursday as we will add ‘Closing Reflections on Community-led Housing at #WUF13’ at the Habitat Village, Civil Society Cluster, Stand no. 12 in the Urban Expo. 🌍

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

World Habitat is thrilled to participate in #WUF13 and we’d love to meet you there. 🏠 Today we host ‘Solutions to the global housing crisis based on Lessons from the last 40 years of the World Habitat Awards’ at the Habitat Village. Find out more 🔗 bit.ly/3PpSrFs #HousingTheWorld

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🎉 Upcoming Events, Unlocking Housing Potential and a Focus on Housing Rights are all covered in our latest global housing news plus an exciting development for our World Habitat Awards Network 📉 Get your free copy 🔗 bit.ly/4ukbPm3

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

As Lebanon faces an ever-deepening housing crisis the Housing Justice Network have helped introduce an emergency anti-eviction rent reform bill currently before the Lebanese Parliament. This statement from Hub for Housing Justice sets out the urgent need for international support 🔗 bit.ly/42agQSa

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Housing Justice Efforts in Lebanon: Statement of Solidarity

The partners of the Hub for Housing Justice express our unwavering solidarity with the ongoing efforts in Lebanon to advance housing rights and protect communities from displacement.

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

🌱 Homelessness is not a choice - it is a consequence! In March, Udraga AjA, launched 'I don't choose homelessness'👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏾 The national campaign, with a number of free guides, brings homelessness practice and social change together. Find out more 🔗 bit.ly/4cvkhZD

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

❇️ On the Blog - Rethinking Co-Housing as Part of Homelessness Prevention In her latest blog, Ella Hancock shares insights from her recently published research into co-housing as a tool for preventing homelessness. 🗞️ 🔓 Read the blog and get the research📎 bit.ly/4c6ByXP

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

🎉 Seminarios web inspiradores, las últimas noticias sobre el sector de las personas sin hogar y soluciones a la crisis de asequibilidad son solo algunos de los temas que se abordan en las últimas noticias mundiales sobre vivienda 📉 Consigue tu ejemplar gratuito 🔗 bit.ly/4dAVO6h

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

🎉Over the past 5 years, #WorldCLTDay has grown into an opportunity for communities around the globe to connect & celebrate. Building on that momentum, the first Global CLT Virtual Summit has been announced — a 6 week series of online events Find out more & register🔗 www.cltweb.org/cltvirtualsu...

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

🎉 Webinars that inspire, latest homelessness sector news, answers to the affordability crisis and advice on financing are just some of the areas covered in the latest global news 📉 Get your free copy 🔗 bit.ly/4m1DHbT

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Recognising, supporting and empowering collaborative housing providers is a priority for the newly formed 'Collaborative Housing Alliance' who met up recently to step up engagement on the delivery of the 'European Affordable Housing Plan.' Find out more about the next steps 🔗 bit.ly/47SgVND

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From pilots to scale: Collaborative housing and the push for long-term affordability - Housing Europe

As the European Union moves into the implementation phase of its European Affordable Housing Plan, including work on the Affordable Housing Act, the housing simplification package, the upcoming pan-Eu...

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

In a time of forced displacement and as the war in Ukraine passed its 4th anniversary, 2024 World Habitat Award Winner, CO-HATY, have been recognised for their contribution to socially responsible architecture — creating housing for those who lost their homes. 🤝🌱 Find out more 🔗 bit.ly/4cuF9AZ

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

v2com newswire release an in-depth press kit about Housing NOW. With free downloadable high-res images & video content it shows how the field-proven bamboo modular system delivers earthquake-resistant, low-cost homes for displaced families. 🔗 bit.ly/4bg6Wmr More about Housing NOW 🔗 bit.ly/460roFM

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Bamboo Housing Resists 7.7 Earthquake in Conflict-Torn Myanmar, Built for Displaced Families - Blue Temple

Press kit for immediate release – Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma), 2025-09-22 - <p>In March 2025, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar. The country’s second-largest city, Mandalay, was left in ...

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The 'Giving LIFE to Europe’s Clean Energy Transition' brochure includes two Energiesprong initiatives 🌱 LIFE Street HP Reno help people buy heat pumps together through a collective scheme. bit.ly/4ujdLMDGiga Regio Factory helps scale industrialised, high-quality renovation approaches. bit.ly/4bynmHS

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Street HP Reno

The LIFE Street HP Reno project champions a visionary approach to upgrading residential heating systems through the collective purchasing of heat pumps. This initiative aims to streamline the adoption...

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The Unforgivable Impact of Homelessness 👇 New analysis by the Platform for Social Housing, shows a person freezes to death on the street almost everyday in the Czech Republic & people with experience of homelessness die sixteen years younger than other people. 📉 Read the Analysis ➡️ bit.ly/3OW8dYg

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

This International Women’s Day 2026 it's important to highlight gender inequality. In this blog World Habitat Award winners FUNDASAL explore how housing exclusion in El Salvador’s historic ‘mesones’ (a type of boarding house) disproportionately affects women. Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/4cuTtcy #IWD2026

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

👭 This ‘International Women’s Day 2026’ we’re recognising the Equality Act, that says you must not discriminate against someone because of their gender and celebrate our 2026 World Habitat Awards Winner – Build Back Safer, by CARE in Vanuatu. 🏆 Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/4bFHb0s #IWD2026

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Alliance members include MOBA Housing SCE European Community Land Trust Network Association urbaMonde NETCO project Community Land Trust Bxl World Habitat European Student Housing Cooperative Alliance (ESCHA)

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

This week Geert De Pauw took members of the Collaborative Housing Alliance to see CLT Molenbeek, Brussels, the first of its kind in the city. The Alliance represents proven non-profit, non-speculative & community-driven responses to Europe’s housing crisis Read more about the CLT ▶️ bit.ly/4kTQEEb

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

These days it’s a rare but wonderful thing to see your name in full-colour print! Thanks to the lovely people at The Flow Trip we get to see World Habitat and a beautiful image of 2025 Gold awardees Tanzania Women Architects for Humanity (TAWAH) in their ‘Home Issue’ presented by Patagonia 🙇‍♀️

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Since 1985 the World Habitat Awards have become a catalyst for advancing housing solutions worldwide. As Ombretta Tempra UN-HABITAT says ‘…we continue to count on the work of the awards to expand the menu of housing solutions that we can learn from.’ Enter the awards🔗 world-habitat.org/awards2027/

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

🏘️ Conventional approaches to housing may no longer be enough! We are now accepting applications for the 2027 awards and welcome early-stage ideas that have been proven in practice but might not yet be well known 💙 Find out more 🔗 bit.ly/3ZfaNug or Enter before the 4th March 🔗 bit.ly/4qkuzj7

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

🏆 Applications to the 2027 awards, in partnership with UN-Habitat, are now open. Will you apply or can you help us to discover practical, high-quality approaches to pressing housing issues 🏠 Find out more🚨 world-habitat.org/awards/how-t... or enter the Awards🚨 world-habitat.org/awards2027/

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

‘You’ve refused to treat housing exclusion as a personal failing & instead are addressing the policies & systems that create it….’ 🤝 🏆At the 2026 World Habitat Awards celebration Leilani Farha @maketheshift.bsky.social addressed the winners. Enter the 2027 Awards 🔗 world-habitat.org/awards2027/

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

At World Habitat we know the solutions to solving homelessness are out there & show with the right policies and support, we can end homelessness & create a better world. If you're involved or are aware of an innovative approach we'd love to hear from you. Enter the 2027 Awards 🖇️ bit.ly/4qkuzj7

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LaFundició @lafundicio.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

El premi @worldhabitat.bsky.social reconeix la feina col·lectiva 💜 d'una xarxa veïnal que defensa, des de La Florida, l’habitatge, la sobirania alimentària, els drets culturals i una vida bona per totes. Gràcies a @ladinamo, #LaFloridaSAveïna, l’#AViVFlorida i totes les persones que en formen part.

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Inici - Les Juntes

Les Juntes és una cooperativa d’habitatge a l’Hospitalet Nord. Apostem per l’autogestió i la propietat col·lectiva.

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LaFundició @lafundicio.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

David Ireland, Director Executiu de @worldhabitat.bsky.social diu: «És un exemple de com l’habitatge cooperatiu pot exercir un paper clau dins de les polítiques d’habitatge assequible. Ofereix un model que les autoritats locals d’arreu d’Europa podrien adaptar per abordar la inseguretat residencial»

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

🏆 Mutual Housing with Habitat for Humanity has received a 2026 World Habitat Bronze Award, for Cornerstone USA. 🎊 🏘️A mixed-income affordable housing development in South Sacramento Watch this short video about their work 🎇 bit.ly/4pPNMsG Read all the details 🎇 bit.ly/4pPNMJc

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

🏆 Housing NOW - Myanmar, has received a World Habitat Bronze Award, in partnership with UN-HABITAT, for its low-cost, low-carbon bamboo housing for people displaced by conflict and climate disasters. 🎊 Watch this short video about their work 🎇 bit.ly/4b8Vmes Read all the details 🎇 bit.ly/460roFM

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

🏆 CARE Vanuatu’s ‘Build Back Safer’ project has received a 2026 World Habitat Bronze Award for empowering communities – particularly women – to lead safer reconstruction after devastating cyclones. 🎊 Watch this short video about their work 🎇 bit.ly/3Ly00br Read all the details 🎇 bit.ly/4bFHb0s

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

🏆 The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Tsinghua University (THAD) has received a 2026 World Habitat Bronze Award, for the regeneration of Taihe Old Town Historic and Cultural Block🎊 Watch this short video about their work 🎇 bit.ly/3Z6Od7f Read all the details 🎇 bit.ly/4r1lP26

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

🏆 Hameaux Légers – in France – has received a 2026 World Habitat Bronze Award, in partnership with UN-HABITAT, for its pioneering model of lightweight, environmentally responsible rural housing. 🎊 Watch this short video about their work 🎇 bit.ly/3NtZegb Read all the details 🎇 bit.ly/4sMKMzZ

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

🏆 The community-led, in-situ redevelopment of the Sanjaynagar informal settlement in Ahmednagar, India, led by the Community Design Agency, has won a 2026 Silver World Habitat Award 🎊 Watch this short video about their work 🎇 bit.ly/4pKzlWE Read all the details 🎇 bit.ly/3ZiWwfY

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World Habitat @worldhabitat.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

🏆 Greater Change UK has won a 2026 Silver World Habitat Award for its highly personalised, trust-based approach to ending homelessness by providing flexible grants that address individual needs. Watch this short video about their work 🎇 bit.ly/4q5UyLf Read all the details 🎇 bit.ly/45n33Ki

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