Why are collaborative housing models needed today?
Our President Adriana Allen joined the opening of the Collaborative Housing Day at the Third International Social Housing Festival that took place in Helsinki between 14–17 June 2022. “Why are collaborative housing [...]
Insights from the Coalition: a conversation with Somsook Boonyabancha, Executive Director of the Asian Coalition of Housing Rights
Somsook Boonyabancha, Founder and Executive Director of the Asian Coalition of Housing Rights (ACHR) and former Director of Community Organizations Development Institute (CODI) in Thailand, in conversation with HIC President, Adriana Allen. [...]
New paper by Adriana Allen: Navigating stigma through everyday city-making: Gendered trajectories, politics and outcomes in the periphery of Lima
New Special Issue paper by HIC President Adriana Allen: 'Navigating stigma through everyday city-making: Gendered trajectories, politics and outcomes in the periphery of Lima Over the last two decades, a growing [...]
Co-producing knowledge for an equitable and sustainable future
15 years activating environmental justice through translocal learning alliances across Mumbai, Accra, Lima & Freetown: here is the legacy coproduced by local communities, partners and students. The ESD Learning Alliance is an [...]
Sanitation is more than just toilets and women are more than just sanitation users
Here are some highlights from the work of our President on advancing just sanitation from a feminist perspective, in collaboration with OGDS (Senegal), GEPALEF (Ivory Coast), SiMIRALENTA (Madagascar), CFCEM/GA [...]
Building just sanitation across urban Africa
Building just sanitation from a feminist perspective is an integral component of building social and environmental justice. Since 2020, our President has been working on an action-research project called OVERDUE: [...]
HIC president Declaration and sound bite on climate justice
Climate Justice is a human right, HIC's President Declaration for World Habitat Day HIC’s President Declaration for World Habitat Day 2021 highlights that climate justice needs to be treated and [...]
Co-Habitat Community led housing in the spotlight
In November 2021 Adriana Allen participated as discussant in a workshop organised by the Co-Habitat network initiative involving a cross-learning exchange across innovative initiatives in Vietnam, Thailand, Namibia, Bangladesh and Brazil. In [...]
Climate justice and human rights to habitat in Latin American cities
In the periphery of COP26 but the centre of Climate Justice. In parallel to COP26, social and environmental movements have converged in Glasgow under the People’s Summit for Climate Justice. Together [...]
