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The Right to the City in Atlanta: Renter Power 2018

The Right to the City in Atlanta: Renter Power 2018

The summer’s biggest blockbuster was not on the screen, but in the streets of Atlanta. Over 300 tenant organizers, policy makers and their allies converged for the Homes for All #RenterPower2018 Assembly organized by the Right to the City Alliance (USA). This historic...

The inhabitants in NY, facing the NUA for the Right to the City

The inhabitants in NY, facing the NUA for the Right to the City

The choice of inhabitants at the HLPF in New York: being g-local for the Right to the City facing the New Urban Agenda. New York, July 2018. On the occasion of the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development Goals the IAI, HIC and other international...

The Right to the City, a cornerstone for “leaving no one behind”

The Right to the City, a cornerstone for “leaving no one behind”

The Right to the City is a collective demand and agreement on the need to implement the Global Agendas for Sustainable Development with a human rights approach. "In his book "The Invisible Cities", Italo Calvino asked this question in a work dedicated to urban spaces,...

New Logo of the Global Platform for the Right to the City

New Logo of the Global Platform for the Right to the City

The Global Platform for the Right to the City has a new logo, which shows the three interdependent pillars of the Right to the City: material, political and symbolic dimensions. The idea was to update the logo to add the 3 dimensions of the Right to the City: –...

Right to the City Conference in Barcelona

Right to the City Conference in Barcelona

This cycle of debates provides the occasion for an open debate among people from different parts of the world that are involved with the struggle for defending the right to affordable and adequate housing. On the occasion of the 50th year anniversary of the...