Urban Lunch-Time
A call for a
Paradigm Shift in Policy
Global
H ou s i n g
Strategy
PLACING HOUSING AT THE CENTER
The GLOBAL HOUSING STRATEGY” promotes a paradigm shift to achieve adequate
shelter for all by placing housing at the center of our thinking, policy and the city
http://www.urbangateway.org/
 64 million vacant housing units in China
 18.4 million vacant housing units in the USA
 3 million vacant housing units in the Egypt
 3.3 million vacant flats in Maharashtra India
 1.5 million vacant housing units in the Spain
 0.85 million vacant housing units in the UK
 0.7 million vacant housing units in the Mexico city
Ghost Towns
(Figures taken from websites - not verified or backed by the United Nations)
Ghost Towns
0ver 120 million
Vacant Housing Units globally
500 million
People could be
properly housed
YET
863 million
People today
Live in Slums
Supply does not meet demand
Housing Strategy
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To build 200,000 housing units per year
To house 200,000 households per year
in
Output
X X X X XBased
X X X Strategy
Results Based Strategy
Housing Strategy
To house 200,000 households per year
in
Results Based Strategy
The Global Housing Strategy
Why do we need it?
 Economic meltdown
1 - Commodification of housing - home ownership
2 – Limited access to affordable Housing finance
 Social exclusion
3 - Urban segregation (Ghettos and Gated Communities)
 Environmental degradation
4 - Urban sprawl and environmental pressures
5 - Proliferation of Slums and informal settlements
The Global Housing Strategy
Goals
To achieve the Habitat Agenda Pillar of
“adequate shelter for all”
Contribute to MDG Target 7D on Slums:
“Improving the living conditions of 100
million slum dwellers by 2020”
by
Proposing a paradigm shift in Housing
PLACING HOUSING AT THE CENTRE
The Global Housing Strategy
PLACING
HOUSING
AT
THE CENTRE
The Global Housing Strategy
Who will be involved
Development Habitat Agenda Partnerships in
National Habitat Committees:
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Central and Local Authorities
Academia
Civil Society
Private Sector
Development Partners
The Global Housing Strategy
Aims to develop National and City Housing
Strategies.
A National Housing Strategy is a participatory
process to guide polices, planning, and
programming of housing, and slum upgrading
and prevention interventions.
National and city Housing Strategies are
inseparable from inclusive urban planning
and management process
The Global Housing Strategy
What Guides Us
Housing Demand
National and Local
Urbanisation Prerequisites
Sustainable Housing
Components
Housing
Governance,
Management
National
Urban Policy
Urban
Planning
Land
Design
Tenure Types
Urban
Economy
Local
Economic
Development
Finance
Building
Technologies
Governance
National
Legislation
Local
Legislation
Basic Urban
Services
Materials &
Components
Management &
Maintenance
Housing and Slum Upgrading and Prevention Framework
Lessons Learned
The Housing Box
cutting
Cross Cutting issues:
 Housing Rights
 Environment
 Gender
 Youth
Planning
and
Housing
Affordable
Housing
(finance)
Youth
and
housing
Sustainable
Housing
Environ
ment
Thematic Clusters
Urban
Economy
and
Housing
Global
Housing
Strategy to
the Year
2025
Slum
Upgrading
Gender
and
housing
Housing
Tenure
Types
Gender,
Indigenous
Youth
Groups
Housing
Rights
The Global Housing Strategy
The approach
The approach to the GHS will include:
 Exchange of experiences
 Applied evidence-based research
 Effectiveness at scale
 Efficiency through partnerships
 National and local capacity development
GHS Approach
GHS
Theme
Partnership of key
actors in
National Habitat
Committees:
 Central
 Local Authorities,
 Academia,
 Civil Society,
 Private Sector,
 Development
Partners
Responses
to
Challenges
Knowledge
Management
Information
Management
Information
Exchange
Cross Cutting issues:
 Housing Rights
 Environment
 Gender
 Youth
GHS Approach
Responses
to
Challenge
Planning &
Housing
Global
Housing
Strategy to
the Year
2025
cutting
Cross Cutting issues:
 Housing Rights
 Environment
 Gender
 Youth
Planning
and
Housing
Affordable
Housing
(finance)
Youth
and
housing
Sustainable
Housing
Environ
ment
Thematic Clusters
Urban
Economy
and
Housing
Global
Housing
Strategy to
the Year
2025
Slum
Upgrading
Gender
and
housing
Housing
Tenure
Types
Gender,
Indigenous
Youth
Groups
Housing
Rights
The Case of Slum
The Global Housing Strategy
Slum Upgrading
Housing
Governance,
Management
Sustainable Housing
Components
Tenure
Types
National
Urban Policy
Urban
Urban
Planning
Planning
Land
Land
Design
Design
Tenure Types
Urban
Economy
Local
Economic
Development
Resourcs
Finance
& Finance
Building
Building
Technologies
Technologies
Governance
National
Legislation
Local
Local
Legislation
Legislation
Basic
Basic
Urban
Services
Services
Building&
Materials
Components
Materials
Lessons Learned
Housing Demand
National and Local
Urbanisation Prerequisites
Management &
Maintenance
Housing and Slum Upgrading and Prevention Framework
Slum Definitions: 5 Deprivations
1 – Access to water
2 – Access to Sanitation
3 – Security of tenure
4 – adequate housing
5 – Crowdedness
The Global Housing Strategy
Economic Investment vs. Housing Subsidies
Subsidizing
Housing
Investing
In economy,
Income
generation,
and jobs
 Dependency
Minimize onlyon
for
subsidies
affordability
 Target
Lack ofonly
dignity
the most
 vulnerable
No return on subsidies
 Citizen Empowerment
to access:
o housing,
o education,
o health, etc..
 Dignity
 Reducing Dependency
 Return on investments
Reduced
Lost
Lost
Funding
Funding
Revolving
Investment
in
Economy
The Global Housing Strategy
Media Strategy
 Popular and professional outreach
 Participatory advocacy
 Professional and Key Habitat Agenda Partners inputs
 Political buy in
 Partnerships with Habitat Agenda Partners
GHS has 2700+ members on the Urban Gateway
Networking by boosting Website Membership
GHS
LinkedIn
Group
1000+
members
Professional and Key partners inputs
Professional dialogues on LinkedIn
HOUSING CRITERIA
CRITERIA
Urban Planning and Design
 Locate housing within urban areas not
isolated in remote “dormitory cities”
 Include housing in mixed urban use areas,
 Improve mobility by introducing a rich variety
of urban uses,
 Promote cultural viability and street life.
CRITERIA
Economic opportunities
 Housing development creates jobs and
stimulates the economy (production of
building materials, construction industry)
 Include housing with mixed uses to generate
new jobs & income generating opportunities,
 Encourage the private sector to invest in
housing in mixed use area,
CRITERIA
Economic opportunities
 Introduce urban agriculture for job creation,
food production and security, improved
environmental qualities
 Share land value to introduce solutions to
finance and cross subsidize housing
CRITERIA
Social integration
 Address social mobility through improved
tenure security of housing units
 Encouraging social interaction of different
income groups – not ghettos and gated
communities,
 Ensure that housing proposals are gender
responsive.
CRITERIA
Environmental improvement
 Achieve neighborhood environmental
sustainability,
 Improve microclimate through green
architecture and planning approaches
 Improve microclimate through vegetation
preferably productive urban agriculture as
well as urban elements/furniture.
CRITERIA
Governance and partnership
 Produce housing through partnerships will
all key actors including central and local
government, private sector, civil society,
professionals and academia.
 Encourage corporate social responsibility to
subsidize housing for vulnerable groups
CRITERIA
Governance and partnership
 Introduce academic social responsibility
whereby students, recent graduates and
academia provide policy advice and technical
assistance to local and central authorities
and those involved in housing for low
income groups.
International Competition
Urban Revitalization of
Mass Housing
Global Housing Strategy Competition
Who is Eligible to compete
The Competition is open to:
 University students (graduate and undergraduate)
 Recent graduates (graduated after December 31st,
2010)
 Ideally a multi-disciplinary team with backgrounds
in urban planning, architecture, social sciences,
economists, urban agriculturalists, etc…
Partnership for development
Competition Teams communicate with:
Partner Type
Institutions
Local and
central
authorities
Role
Examples/outputs
Ministry of Housing
Owner or manager of
the housing stock
Municipality
Housing Companies
Research
Academia
Think tank and
research
Best practice
Solution development
Economic revitalisation
Industry and
the private
sector
Urban economic
development
Civil Society/
renters
association
Watchdog
organizations
Job creation
Funding mechanisms
Owners associations
Rights groups
Problem Research
National Analysis
MAY-AUG
SEP
2013
PREPARATION
OCT
NOV
DEC
COMPETITION
JAN
FEB
Jury work
EVALUATION
MAR
2014
World Urban Forum Prize Awards
International Jury
Regional Jury
Proposals
National Jury
Further Research
Concepts and Policy
Implications
Challenges
Innovative and
sustainable
solutions to address
challenges
Best Practices
Housing Analysis
Urban Analysis
Detailed Programme
Announce ment
Mobilizing
Design Jury selection
Time Line
APR
Jury structure and composition
National Jury
(1 per country)
Regional Jury
(total of 6)
International
Jury (1)
4
Academia
9
Academia
6
Academia
2
Professional
3
Professional
3
Professional
1
NGOs
2
NGOs
3
NGOs
2
Institutions
1
Institutions
5
Institutions
9
Total
15
Total
17
Total
Competition Prize
When
Mid April
2014
During
World Urban Forum
Where
Medellin, Colombia
1
st
Award to participate in designing a
building in the City of Medellin, Colombia
1
st
Internships for the First winner in each of
6 regions
Prize
Regional
Prize
Regional
International Competition
Urban Revitalization of
Mass Housing
The Global Housing Strategy
Expected Outcomes
(Re)positioning housing within the global contemporary debate
Critical outcomes include contributing to:
 Rights-based, Gender-responsive, Results-based National
Strategies
 Inclusive cities: access to adequate housing
 Paradigm shift: housing as part of Urban Planning,
 Systemic reforms promoted for improved quality of life;
 Linkages of housing with other parts of the economy strengthened;
 Sustainable building and neighbourhood designs and technologies
promoted
The Global Housing Strategy
When will it happen
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Global
H ou s i n g
Strategy
PLACING HOUSING AT THE CENTER
The GLOBAL HOUSING STRATEGY” promotes a paradigm shift to achieve adequate
shelter for all by placing housing at the center of our thinking, policy and the city
http://www.urbangateway.org/