This International Women’s Day 2026 it's important to highlight gender inequality. In this blog World Habitat Award winners FUNDASAL explore how housing exclusion in El Salvador’s historic ‘mesones’ (a type of boarding house) disproportionately affects women. Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/4cuTtcy #IWD2026
👭 This ‘International Women’s Day 2026’ we’re recognising the Equality Act, that says you must not discriminate against someone because of their gender and celebrate our 2026 World Habitat Awards Winner – Build Back Safer, by CARE in Vanuatu. 🏆
Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/4bFHb0s
#IWD2026
Alliance members include
MOBA Housing SCE
European Community Land Trust Network
Association urbaMonde
NETCO project
Community Land Trust Bxl
World Habitat
European Student Housing Cooperative Alliance (ESCHA)
This week Geert De Pauw took members of the Collaborative Housing Alliance to see CLT Molenbeek, Brussels, the first of its kind in the city. The Alliance represents proven non-profit, non-speculative & community-driven responses to Europe’s housing crisis
Read more about the CLT ▶️ bit.ly/4kTQEEb
These days it’s a rare but wonderful thing to see your name in full-colour print! Thanks to the lovely people at The Flow Trip we get to see World Habitat and a beautiful image of 2025 Gold awardees Tanzania Women Architects for Humanity (TAWAH) in their ‘Home Issue’ presented by Patagonia 🙇♀️
Since 1985 the World Habitat Awards have become a catalyst for advancing housing solutions worldwide.
As Ombretta Tempra UN-HABITAT says ‘…we continue to count on the work of the awards to expand the menu of housing solutions that we can learn from.’
Enter the awards🔗 world-habitat.org/awards2027/
🏘️ Conventional approaches to housing may no longer be enough! We are now accepting applications for the 2027 awards and welcome early-stage ideas that have been proven in practice but might not yet be well known 💙
Find out more 🔗 bit.ly/3ZfaNug
or
Enter before the 4th March 🔗 bit.ly/4qkuzj7
🏆 Applications to the 2027 awards, in partnership with UN-Habitat, are now open.
Will you apply or can you help us to discover practical, high-quality approaches to pressing housing issues 🏠
Find out more🚨 world-habitat.org/awards/how-t...
or enter the Awards🚨 world-habitat.org/awards2027/
‘You’ve refused to treat housing exclusion as a personal failing & instead are addressing the policies & systems that create it….’ 🤝
🏆At the 2026 World Habitat Awards celebration Leilani Farha @maketheshift.bsky.social addressed the winners.
Enter the 2027 Awards 🔗 world-habitat.org/awards2027/
At World Habitat we know the solutions to solving homelessness are out there & show with the right policies and support, we can end homelessness & create a better world.
If you're involved or are aware of an innovative approach we'd love to hear from you.
Enter the 2027 Awards 🖇️ bit.ly/4qkuzj7
💚Estem molt contentes de gestionar les assegurances d'un projecte cooperatiu com Les Juntes, reconeguda als @worldhabitat.bsky.social 2026.
Enhorabona, companyes!
Vist a @jornalpuntcat.bsky.social.
#HabitatgeCooperatiu
El premi @worldhabitat.bsky.social reconeix la feina col·lectiva 💜 d'una xarxa veïnal que defensa, des de La Florida, l’habitatge, la sobirania alimentària, els drets culturals i una vida bona per totes.
Gràcies a @ladinamo, #LaFloridaSAveïna, l’#AViVFlorida i totes les persones que en formen part.
David Ireland, Director Executiu de @worldhabitat.bsky.social diu: «És un exemple de com l’habitatge cooperatiu pot exercir un paper clau dins de les polítiques d’habitatge assequible. Ofereix un model que les autoritats locals d’arreu d’Europa podrien adaptar per abordar la inseguretat residencial»
@careintuk.bsky.social @careglobal.bsky.social
🏆 Mutual Housing with Habitat for Humanity has received a 2026 World Habitat Bronze Award, for Cornerstone USA. 🎊
🏘️A mixed-income affordable housing development in South Sacramento
Watch this short video about their work 🎇 bit.ly/4pPNMsG
Read all the details 🎇 bit.ly/4pPNMJc
🏆 Housing NOW - Myanmar, has received a World Habitat Bronze Award, in partnership with UN-HABITAT, for its low-cost, low-carbon bamboo housing for people displaced by conflict and climate disasters. 🎊
Watch this short video about their work 🎇 bit.ly/4b8Vmes
Read all the details 🎇 bit.ly/460roFM
🏆 CARE Vanuatu’s ‘Build Back Safer’ project has received a 2026 World Habitat Bronze Award for empowering communities – particularly women – to lead safer reconstruction after devastating cyclones. 🎊
Watch this short video about their work 🎇 bit.ly/3Ly00br
Read all the details 🎇 bit.ly/4bFHb0s
🏆 The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Tsinghua University (THAD) has received a 2026 World Habitat Bronze Award, for the regeneration of Taihe Old Town Historic and Cultural Block🎊
Watch this short video about their work 🎇 bit.ly/3Z6Od7f
Read all the details 🎇 bit.ly/4r1lP26
🏆 Hameaux Légers – in France – has received a 2026 World Habitat Bronze Award, in partnership with UN-HABITAT, for its pioneering model of lightweight, environmentally responsible rural housing. 🎊
Watch this short video about their work 🎇 bit.ly/3NtZegb
Read all the details 🎇 bit.ly/4sMKMzZ
🏆 The community-led, in-situ redevelopment of the Sanjaynagar informal settlement in Ahmednagar, India, led by the Community Design Agency, has won a 2026 Silver World Habitat Award 🎊
Watch this short video about their work 🎇 bit.ly/4pKzlWE
Read all the details 🎇 bit.ly/3ZiWwfY
🏆 Greater Change UK has won a 2026 Silver World Habitat Award for its highly personalised, trust-based approach to ending homelessness by providing flexible grants that address individual needs.
Watch this short video about their work 🎇 bit.ly/4q5UyLf
Read all the details 🎇 bit.ly/45n33Ki
@aalvarezr.bsky.social
🏆 Les Juntes, Catalonia, has received a World Habitat Award, for upholding the right to housing, by communally converting properties formerly owned by banks into cooperative homes for people facing eviction or housing insecurity. 🎊
Watch this video 🎇 bit.ly/4k7e7S1
Read more 🎇 bit.ly/4k7e88x
Housing & heritage regeneration by the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee & transforming homelessness policy & practice by ‘The Platform for Social Housing’ Czech Republic are today announced as the 2026 World Habitat Award GOLD winners. See more bit.ly/3YNaQ08 Read more 🎇 bit.ly/4pLdvlU
🎉 If you are interested in solutions to global housing challenges...
...then join us for the LIVE announcements of the 2026 World Habitat Awards winners with reflections and endorsements from the Global Director of The Shift, Leilani Farha 💡
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#WHA #WHA26
🎉 If you are interested in solutions to housing poverty & homelessness, urban regeneration, sustainable construction & resilience in the face of displacement join us for the announcements of the 2026 World Habitat Awards winners with UN-HABITAT’s Ombretta Tempra.
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⚡ NEWSFLASH ⚡
The World Habitat website is available in English, Spanish, French, Portugese, Italian, German
AND NOW
Korean, Mandarin, Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, and Swahili
Visit today and choose the language of your choice 📖 world-habitat.org
Recently Spanish government fined property rentals giant Airbnb €64m for advertising unlicensed apartments. 🏖️
📚 Here, David Ireland remembers the moment residents sprayed tourists with water pistols & looks at the short-term rental impact on housing.
🔗 world-habitat.org/.../airbnb-a...
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✨Short-term rentals with long-term consequences, a competition for global innovation, and housing’s prominent role in the climate emergency are all covered in our end of year Monthly Update + much much more
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