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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

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Cities are vulnerable to climate change and central to its solutions

Anna Walnycki and Tucker Landesman
20 November 2024

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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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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

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

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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

552 entries

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Rent as social protection: thinking through housing insecurities experienced by domestic workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Informal housing block with children playing in front

Precarities of informal rental housing during the pandemic: interview with a domestic workers’ union in India

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Improving social protection for low income and informal settlements: reflections from the pandemic

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How COVID-19 affected informal livelihoods in Harare

Article

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The Delhi Coordinated Relief network: lessons from COVID-19

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Securing social protection for informal workers in Jaipur during COVID-19: lessons from a labour union

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Resilient livelihoods during COVID-19: photo gallery

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Further data tales: decoding land ownership and other challenges

Insight, 25 October 2023

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Filling in the gaps - how Delhi organisations provided food relief during COVID-19: Make Change Happen podcast episode 24

Article, 18 October 2023

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Social protection that works for cities: lessons from the pandemic

Event on 31 October 2023