Radically democratic forms of housing production

A report assessesing how local and regional governments are advancing the right to adequate housing to meet the UN’s housing-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets, describing the importance of local knowledge, and the power of grassroots organisations and local governments to translate the objective of adequate housing into positive action towards that goal.

What pedagogic practices enable social movements, ordinary citizens, activists & urban practitioners to become agents of change towards socially and environmentally just cities? The film explores this question through the experiences of grassroots schools of popular urbanism working under the umbrella of HIC in Latin America.

The overall goal of the HIC co-learning space on social production of habitat was to build a common understanding among HIC members, friends, and allies cross-regionally about concepts and practices of social production of habitat to raise a collective and global voice for political action and joint advocacy strategies.

A collaboration between IIED and World Habitat, working with local partners from Brazil (Catalytic Communities), Malawi (Center for Community Organisation and Development), Zambia (Civic Forum on Housing and Habitat), Nepal (Lumanti Support Group for Shelter), Switzerland (urbaMonde), and Slovenia (Zadrugator), promoting community-led housing as a feasible and effective solution to advance housing justice and to provide housing that delivers the social and environmental outcomes for our cities and the planet to thrive.

This Resource Guide is the outcome of a Summer Institute on Methodologies for Housing Justice convened by the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy as part of the Housing Justice in Unequal Cities Network. The Resource Guide foregrounds innovative methods that are being used by researchers across academia and activism and explicitly situates such methods in an orientation towards housing justice.