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UCLG Community of Practice on Housing: Assessing ways to advance the right to housing in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic’s aftermath
Friday, 12 June 2020
The UCLG Community of Practice on Housing meet last May 22 to showcase the latest developments face to COVID-19 by signatory cities of the “Cities for Adequate Housing” Declaration. The meeting offered an opportunity to explore shared challenges and policies put in place these last months, as well as a platform for reflecting on housing’s role in the pandemic...
Call for contributions to the next UN Report on the Right to Housing and COVID-19
Monday, 08 June 2020
The recently nominated UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing Balakrishnan Rajagopal has launched a call for contributions to his next report to the UN General Assembly (October 2020) on “COVID-19 and the right to housing”. Local and regional governments are encouraged to send their contribution to this report, in order to showcase both the challenges...
Challenges and responses to COVID-19: Interview to Paola Pabón, President of the Province of Pichincha (Ecuador)
Monday, 08 June 2020
As COVID-19 is affecting more and more regions of the world, so does its harsh social and economic consequences - a crisis that, in many ways, stems from structural causes that predate the pandemic. Faced with the limitations of many national social protection systems, local and regional governments have led unprecedented levels of mobilisation, implementing...
Virtual Meeting of the UCLG Community of Practice on Housing: Protecting the Right to Housing in the context of COVID-19 and #BeyondTheOutbreak
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
As a direct follow-up of our previous Live Learning Experience on Housing (1 April), and in order to deepen and exchange on possible measures to be implemented by local and regional governments to protect the right to housing in these times of crisis, the UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights and the city of Barcelona are co-...
Rent relief programs and moratorium of evictions in the context of the social crisis caused by COVID-19: What responses by local governments?
Sunday, 17 May 2020
Across the world, many local governments have put in place emergency responses to housing-related challenges that have arisen as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. The potential risk of a deepened housing crisis - in the medium and long term - is a growing concern for many local and regional governments (LRGs), due to the massive loss of jobs and the disruption of...
Challenges and responses to COVID-19: Interview to Shams Asadi, Human Rights Commissioner of Vienna
Friday, 15 May 2020
Local governments who have been developing human rights policies over the last years now count with additional knowledge, expertise and institutional capacity that could prove particularly useful in addressing the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. The rights-based approach has guided the implementation of new local measures, including action on non-...
Challenges and responses to COVID-19: A local perspective from Mexico City
Friday, 15 May 2020
For several months now, the COVID-19 epidemic has been affecting almost the entire world to a greater or lesser extent. During this time, local governments have been developing sound policies to respond to the different impacts of the social and economic crisis triggered by the pandemic. Policies are being implemented in areas like social assistance of groups in...
Challenges and responses to COVID-19: A local perspective from the cities of Sfax and Douala
Saturday, 25 April 2020
This week, the deputy mayor of Sfax (Tunisia) on decentralized cooperation and international relations, Mr. Med Wajdi Aydi; as well as the deputy mayor of Douala 3 (Cameroon), Mr. Achille Azemba, share those various initiatives put in place within their territories with a view to fight the pandemic and protect the most vulnerable groups, in particular migrant...

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