🎓 Proud to share that our dear Adriana Allen has received an Honorary Doctorate from University of Mar del Plata (UNMDP) A powerful tribute to her lifelong work on community-led housing, feminist urbanism, & urban & social justice across the globe A deeply deserved honour for her endless commitment💜

🌍 We’re Hiring: Advocacy Officer HIC is looking for a passionate and committed Advocacy Officer to lead our cross-regional advocacy efforts defending habitat-related human rights 🔹Deadline: 30.09 2025 (midnight GMT) 🔹Location: Remote (Work from anywhere!) 📄 Full details hic-net.org/wp-content/u...

🏠 Canada needs 4.4M affordable homes — and fast. Join this session Sept 25 @ 12PM ET for a #CityTalk webinar on how the feds can build at scale with #BuildCanadaHomes. Speakers: 🔹 Carolyn Whitzman 🔹 Graeme Hussey 🔹 Tyler Meredith #HousingCrisis #AffordableHousing

A powerful journey comes to an end. Thank you to everyone who joined the HIC Teach-In Series: 📚 "Understanding Palestine: What’s Habitat Got to Do with It?" Session 4 focused on solidarity & action, and the urgency to stop genocide and dismantle settler colonialism. #HICTeachIns #Palestine

📸 Incredible moments from the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum in Sri Lanka! 🌍✊ Our Coalition is raising our voices in solidarity with #Palestine, calling for an #EndTheGenocide and oppression. Let’s stay united in our fight for justice. The report and next steps are coming soon!

"Int’l law forbids an occupier from transferring its population or altering laws in occupied territory Yet Palestinians displaced in 1967 were denied return, while Jews worldwide are granted immigration, citizenship & land ownership, even in occupied areas" 🗣️Tasneem Janazra - #Palestine ’s LRC org

✨ انضم إلى جلسة Teach-In اليوم: كيف يتم تطبيق الفصل العنصري في الإسكان والأراضي والمياه في فلسطين 🗓️ الأربعاء 27 أغسطس | 16:00–18:00 بتوقيت جنوب إفريقيا 🌍 تحقق من التوقيت المحلي: bit.ly/3J1TisE 🔗 التسجيل: bit.ly/Palestine-Te... 🎙️ متحدثون من منظمتي LRC و PHG الفلسطينيتين – لا تفوت الفرصة!

✨ Join today’s Teach-In session: How housing, land & water apartheid is operationalised in Palestine 🗓️ Wed 27 Aug | 16:00–18:00 SAST 🌍 Check local time: bit.ly/3J1TisE 🔗 Register: bit.ly/Palestine-Te... 🎙️ Speakers from Palestine orgs LRC & PHG – don’t miss it!

We thank all speakers and participants for attending Session 2 of the Teach-in Series on Palestine and Habitat. 📢 Join us again on August 27 at 16:00 SAST for our follow-up session on how housing and land policies can violate international norms!

In Session 2 of the Palestine Teach-ins: Paul Hendler explained the difference between anti-zionism and anti-semitism. Joseph Schechla of HLRN spoke about imperial systems and settler colonialism. Lubnah Shomali, BADIL, ended with a brief reflection of Palestine's dispossession.

We thank all speakers and participants for attending Session 1 of the Teach-in Series on Palestine and Habitat. 📢 Join us on August 13 at 16:00 SAST for a thought-provoking discussion on Occupation, Apartheid, and Resistance in Palestine. #Palestine #LandRights #HIC

Enrique Ortiz, Difusión HIC-AL Habitat International Coalition, discussed the importance of acting in solidarity with Palestine. Heba Al-Wahoush, Land Research Centre, gave context on the occupation of the Palestinian Territories. #Palestine #LandRights #HousingJustice #HIC

Leilani Farha, Director of The Shift & Former UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, and Ashraf Abu Hayyeh of Al Haq Foundation, spoke about the importance of housing and land in Palestine for Session 1 of the Teach-in Series. #Palestine #LandRights #HousingJustice #HIC

⌛️Coming soon next week: Our Teach‑In Series begins 30 July! A teach-in is a forum for open discussion and debate aimed at encouraging critical thinking and collective action. Dive into housing & land as tools of domination 📢 Register now: bit.ly/Palestine-Te...

🌱 Conoce 18 iniciativas comunitarias que enfrentan la #CrisisClimática desde territorios urbanos y rurales. 📢 Difúndelas y acompaña a @HIC_AL rumbo a la #COP30 para que estos esfuerzos sean reconocidos. #MitigaciónSocialDelCambioClimático #IPCC #JusticiaClimática

📢 Just 10 days left! Join the 4-part #TeachIn series on Palestine & Habitat 🏠🌍 🗓️ Dates: 30 July | 13 Aug | 27 Aug | 10 Sept 🕓 16:00–18:00 SAST 🔗 Register: bit.ly/Palestine-Te... Let’s reflect, learn & act in solidarity. #Palestine #LandRights #HousingJustice #HIC

HIC joined Reclaim the City and grassroots groups in Cape Town to explore commoning and how we can reclaim urban spaces for people and communities. 💥🌱 #RightToTheCity #Commoning #UrbanJustice #CapeTown #HIC

📢 Join the 2nd session of Dialogues in Coproduction! 📆Tomorrow 14:30 CEST Professional Alliances for Co-Production: 🔗 Register: framaforms.org/registration... 🗣️ With experts from DPU , @iclei.org , @unhabitatyouth.bsky.social & more 🌍 EN/FR interpretation

⤵️1/4 Miembros de HIC Latinoamérica @HIC_AL se reunieron en Buenos Aires para analizar el impacto del cierre de la Política Nacional de Obras Públicas, Tierras y Vivienda en Argentina. Una cita clave para enfrentar juntes el difícil contexto que vive Argentina www.hic-net.org/es/acciones-...

🌍 Yesterday marked #WorldEnvironmentDay — a powerful moment to explore our Climate Justice Co-Learning Space Podcast! 🎧Gain cross-regional insights on climate change, justice, and the urgent actions needed to defend habitat rights. 🔊 soundcloud.com/hic-53024868... 🎙️ #ClimateJustice

📢 Irene Escorihuela @observadesca.bsky.social opened a powerful session co-organized with HIC and European Members at the International Social Housing Festival in Dublin! 🔎 Focus: Financialisation of housing & local responses—from social movements to cooperatives #ISHF2025

🏘️ Full house at the side event we organized at #ISHF2025 in Dublin! So glad to participate in this key panel on policies against speculation and for the social function of #housing. In collaboration with HIC, IIED and The Shift.

HIC actively participated at the 2nd UN-Habitat Assembly Main outcomes: ▶️Strategic Plan 2026-29 adopted ▶️Focus on inclusive, sustainable cities aligned with #Agenda2030 ▶️HIC helped draft a declaration “by, for & with the people” Next one: #WUF13 in Baku, 2026!

Important conversations are happening now in Dublin at #ISHF25 🏠🌍 Voices from across the global housing movement are coming together to ask a vital question: How do we reclaim the right to housing for the people? Stay tuned and join the conversation! Today's programme 👇 @housingeurope.bsky.social

Join us at #ISHF25 on 5th June for 🧭Guiding Europe Home: The Compass for a New Housing Paradigm Discover the Housing Compass, best practices in Member States & how the EU can support dedicated social and affordable housing providers. 🔗 buff.ly/oSSOOWa

What an amazing first day at #ISHF25 ! Thanks to the team in Dublin and everyone who joined events. Today’s set to be even bigger and busier, with a packed lineup of events from the Housing Europe network. Don’t miss out 💬 buff.ly/1VmHXt5

🚨 ¡Red Hábitat busca Director(a) Ejecutivo(a)! 📌 ONG boliviana con sede en La Paz 📄 Requisitos: red-habitat.org/wp-content/u... 📧 Postula hasta el 9/06/25: [email protected] ⚖️ Selección basada solo en méritos. #Bolivia #ONG #TrabajoSocial #Convocatoria

"Se necesitan compromisos claros y, sobre todo, mecanismos efectivos para garantizar que el Estado cumple lo que promete ante la comunidad internacional". ✍️ Nuestra directora Irene Escorihuela escribe en @eldiario.es  sobre España y el Examen Periódico Universal (EPU).

📢 The rise of short-term/tourist/platform rentals is worsening the global housing crisis. But resistance is growing 💪🏽 🌍 Join the collaborative mapping by the Global Observatory ofTemporary Rentals to connect struggles and strategies worldwide: 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

On #WorldAfricaDay, we honour a major step forward in our Coalition: HIC Members in Africa co-developed a regional strategy to strengthen the struggle for habitat-related human rights. This plan reflects HIC’s commitment to support grassroots & social movements across the region

🕊️ Today, May 15, is #NakbaDay — marking 76 years of the dispossession of the Palestinian people. We at @HIC_Habitat stand in solidarity and renew our call to action. www.hic-net.org/nakba-day-co...

🚨 Palestinian civil society, global humanitarian & human rights orgs, issues this urgent call: The famine in Gaza must be halted. The world must act decisively, immediately, and with full legal & moral responsibility 📢 Sign this ESCR-net call 👉 www.escr-net.org/news/2025/un...

🌍 Africa’s habitats are under threatbut hope rises! This week, @hdafrica.bsky.social’s Sebaka Derrick met with 🇺🇬 legal volunteer reps championing: ⚖️ Legal aid for Indigenous communities 🛡️ Support for EHRDs 📊 Climate loss tracking 💔 Justice for victims #ClimateJustice #AfricaRising

Powered by the @habitat-intl.bsky.social |HLRN Climate Change Impact & Justice Tool, this work drives accountability & resilience. 🟢 Defend Nature 🟢 Protect Rights 🟢 Empower Communities #HabitatDefendersAfrica #LossAndDamage #YouthPower #LegalEmpowerment #HumanRights #EnvironmentalRights

🌎 En el 5º Foro #CiudadesYTerritoriosDePaz, nuestro Vicepresidente Guillermo Marzioni visibilizó las luchas colectivas por el derecho a la tierra, la vivienda digna y un hábitat justo como pilares esenciales para una paz duradera, en territorios urbanos y rurales. ✊🏽🏘️🌱

🚨 HIC Convergence of Social & Feminist Movements joined Abahlali baseMjondolo’s #UnfreedomMarch in Durban! 🚨 We marched against inequality, injustice & systemic oppression. 🌍 This is a global fight and a united movement – rooted in care, united in struggle #UnfreedomDay

[EAC statement] 📣 #HAD2023: 10 days, 120 actions in over 60 cities! 🔥➡️The European housing movements took back the streets. The #HousingActionDays 2023 were the biggest we have ever seen! 🧵 housingnotprofit.org/10-days-120-ac…

🏁 #HAD2024 #HOUSINGACTIONDAYS are starting today!🏠✊ For 10 DAYS, all across Europe, thousands of people will mobilize against gentrification, commodification of housing, privatisation of public space and touristification‼️ 👇 This year's first actions!👇

🌍 April 25–26: #GlobalHousingActionDays HIC & Members rise up for #HousingJustice — to reclaim homes, resist evictions & defend habitat rights as human rights. Our call echoes from Durban, where social & feminist movements converge ✊🏽 A global fight, a united movement www.hic-net.org/global-actio...

On Sunday, April 5th, hundreds of thousands flooded the streets of over 40 cities across Spain to demand an end to the housing business, following the call of dozens of housing justice organizations! @LA_PAH @InquilinatoMad @SindicatLloguer

Get ready for #had2025 ! If you would like to participate in global Housing Action Days, but are unsure if you have the capacity or you don't have an idea what you could do, get inspired by some actions from last year.

🌍 Day 1 of the Global Convergence is complete! In Durban, social & feminist movements from around the world are building a Collective Agenda for #HabitatRights. 📅 Tomorrow continues with hybrid sessions — join us! 🔗 www.hic-net.org/social-and-f... #FeministUrbanism #HICConvergence #LandJustice

🌱 This #WorldEnvironmentDay, we highlight the HIC #ClimateJustice Podcast — a powerful reminder that environmental action must center justice, equity & human rights. 🎧 🔗https://soundcloud.com/hic-530248681/climate-justice-definition-global-policy-frameworks-and-inspiring-actions-from-civil-society

🚨 Kicking off the 2nd session of the Asia Habitat Dialogues! Led by @IndiaWpc &HIC this space aims to strengthen solidarity & capacities of grassroots orgs in Asia to advance public-community partnerships on housing, land, urbanisation & climate #AsiaHabitatDialogues

📢 Looking forward to next week! 🌍✊ From April 23–25, 2025, grassroots social & feminist movements will gather in Durban to build a collective agenda for land, housing & habitat rights — over profit. Co-organized together with Abahlali baseMjondolo hic-net.org/social-and-f...

🌍 Tomorrow! Join us for Asia Housing Dialogues 2025 – Session 1: Public-Community Partnerships for Housing, Land & Livelihoods. Let’s explore how these partnerships can address the housing crisis & promote climate resilience in Asia. 🗓️ 15/04 🔗 Register us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"Nada de lo que hemos ganado nos cayó del cielo, lo luchamos" 💜 Angélica Agüero Carrasco, Presidenta de la Red de Mujeres de Lima Norte Perú, denuncia la violencia persistente y la falta de representación real en política en Perú. youtu.be/LflUSSygsE8 #FeminismForHabitat

📢 Mujeres y acción colectiva en Perú ✊💜 🚨 "A pesar de la Ley de Alternancia, muchas legisladoras olvidan sus raíces. La violencia de género sigue siendo alarmante." – Angélica Agüero Carrasco, Red de Mujeres de Lima Norte. 🔗 Conoce más 👉 www.hic-net.org/es/peru-luch...

🔥 Las mujeres en Perú resisten colocando el cuidado colectivo en el centro ⚠️ Violencia de género ⚫ Racismo estructural ⚒️ Precarización laboral 💜 El feminismo defiende derechos y territorio. Escucha sus voces y únete a la lucha. 📺 Mira sus testimonios www.hic-net.org/es/peru-luch...

"At a time when housing is sidelined on global agendas, collective action is more crucial than ever! 🌍The Convergence of Social & Feminist Movements shows the power of unity. @yolandehendler closes our session with a powerful call to action—let’s keep pushing forward! #CSW69