How can decent housing for 5,000,000 households by 2035 be achieved? The National Network of Cameroonian Inhabitants are taking on this very #righttothecity, #right2housing issue, organising the Fifth Triennial of Inhabitants 2019, in Douala, #Cameroon between March...

Fulfilled social functions
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African perspectives and realities on the Right to the City: Meeting of local governments and civil society during Africities summit (Marrakech)
Last November 22, our Committee and the Global Platform for the Right to the City organized the session “Right to the City and international agendas: African realities and perspectives” on the occasion of Africities: the meeting of African cities organized every three...
Urgent actionGovernment of Zimbabwe forcibly evicts 1 000 resettled villagers
About 1 000 families from Sikato resettlement in Masvingo West constituency are facing an uncertain future after being served with seven-day eviction notices to vacate the land which they occupied at the height of the land reform programme in 2000. The families, from...
Urgent actionAbahlali baseMjondolo Goes to Court to Stop the Eviction of Disabled Residents
Monday, 26 November 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Tomorrow We Go to Court to Stop the Eviction of Disabled Residents Tomorrow the eNduduzweni branch of Abahlali baseMjondolo goes to Durban High Court as the eThekwini Municipality and KZN Department of...
Building cities and territories of rights
The Right to the City movement expands and strengthens. From 28 to 31 October, the International Meeting for Equal Cities (EIpCI) was held in Buenos Aires. It was part of the work of the Global Platform for the Right to the City (PGDC), together with national and...
The City Understood as a Common Good, an Emerging Pillar of the Right to the City
1. The Evolution of Human Rights for the Right to the City 1.1. The Concept of Urban Rights in the Popular Amendment on Urban Reform The concept of urban rights was included as a core element of the Urban Reform’s thinking which emerged during Brazil’s process...
Inspiring Practices Show Housing is at the Center of the Global Agendas
The Regional Housing and Habitat Forum that took place this past June in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic was an unusual gathering. It brought together strategic stakeholders related to the urban and housing agenda in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region and...
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...












