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Informal settlements (slums)

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New collaborative initiative launches to transform housing justice

08 January 2025

Image showing the fishing community slum of Sai Baba Sahi after the construction, with a main street paved with stones, houses and shops.

It takes two (for a disaster) to tango

Antarin Chakrabarty
13 December 2024

Two people holding plants and discussing.

Cities are vulnerable to climate change and central to its solutions

Anna Walnycki and Tucker Landesman
20 November 2024

Children walking and playing around a court yard.

Bringing nature to children in disadvantaged urban communities

Sudeshna Chatterjee and Louise Chawla
14 November 2024

Flooding at Otumara Settlement.

Better Cities II: Transforming informal settlements on a warming planet

30 October 2024

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Urban legend: one man, 50 years, countless seeds of hope

Long read 13 May 2024

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Learn more about focused areas of IIED's urban work

Better cities are possible: achieving resilient, low-carbon and inclusive urban development

A series of articles exploring the critical shifts in governance, policy and action needed to transform informal settlements on a warming planet

The transition to a predominantly urban world

A series of insights and interviews designed to share the experiences of community leaders, professionals, researchers and government from the global South

Urban crises and forced displacement

A programme of work on urban refugees and internally displaced peoples that also supports municipal authorities to respond to crisis and protracted displacement

Housing justice

A programme of work involving research, capacity development, policy advisory and advocacy initiatives that advance housing justice

Publications

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Monitoring and stopping forced eviction: a crucial pathway to secure housing for all

22598g.pdf

Collective, non-speculative housing to realise adequate housing for all

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Climate justice in informal settlements in Buenos Aires

Communication practices and the struggles for housing justice

Displaced people: the need for an ‘urban first’ approach

Media trajectories: a brief introduction to the communication practices of housing movements in São Paulo and Lagos

Economic penalties for refugees running businesses in Nairobi

22496IIED.pdf

The SECURe framework: thinking about power and politics when using co-production interventions for urban resilience

Syrian refugees in Jordan

22466IIED.pdf

Building sustainable housing futures for all

553 entries

Landscape image of Nairobi with lots of rooftops showing.

Far Away From Home: exploring city responses to refugees

Event on 12 February 2025

Crowd sitting down and looking at presentation. Projector is showing PowerPoint slide on wall.

New collaborative initiative launches to transform housing justice

News, 08 January 2025

Image showing the fishing community slum of Sai Baba Sahi after the construction, with a main street paved with stones, houses and shops.

It takes two (for a disaster) to tango

Insight, 13 December 2024

Man walking alongside a main road going through a small town in Uganda.

Measuring small towns – why definitions matter?

Insight, 27 November 2024

Two people holding plants and discussing.

Cities are vulnerable to climate change and central to its solutions

Insight, 20 November 2024

IIED-América Latina wins Global Center on Adaptation award at COP29

News, 19 November 2024

Children walking and playing around a court yard.

Bringing nature to children in disadvantaged urban communities

Insight, 14 November 2024

Favela, an urban slum located within or on the outskirts of São Paulo.

Bringing housing justice and civic media together: three reflections

Insight, 04 November 2024

A corridor in Kisenyi, with a semi-permanent hostel and a permanent structure.

Driving change for Kampala’s urban refugee population

Insight, 31 October 2024

Flooding at Otumara Settlement.

Better Cities II: Transforming informal settlements on a warming planet

Article, 30 October 2024