UN-HABITAT WORLDWIDE
The 2025 Annual Report presents how UN-Habitat advanced housing-led sustainable urban development as a foundation for more inclusive, resilient and sustainable cities. Framed around the principle t...
As cities continue to face growing challenges—from housing shortages and inequality to climate change and rapid urbanization—participants reflected on key outcomes, shared lessons and renewed their...
On the third day of the thirteenth session of the World Urban Forum #WUF13), global leaders, researchers, practitioners and communities gathered in Baku to confront one of the defining challenges o...
We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us.
But what happens when the system is broken?
When finance ignores informal incomes?
WUF13 has made it clear: housing is not secondary. It is th...
Cheap to build, expensive to live in: The hidden cost of the "affordability trap." 🏗️💸
Day 4 of WUF13 exposed a critical flaw in our housing systems: we prioritize low upfront construction costs w.
Informal settlements are now a dominant form of urban growth, providing homes for millions but often marked by limited services, insecure tenure and growing exposure to climate risks.
This dialog...
At the thirteenth session of the World Urban Forum #WUF13 in Baku, global leaders and housing experts reflect on the growing pressures shaping the global housing crisis and the urgent need to rethi...
The thirteenth session of the World Urban Forum #WUF13 opened in Baku, Azerbaijan, bringing together a record number of participants from around the world to advance dialogue and action on sustaina...
As #WUF13 prepares to open tomorrow in Baku, Azerbaijan, the UN-Habitat Executive Director welcomes the world to the world’s premier forum on sustainable urbanization.
Across the venue, final prep...
The Gere Foundation Chair, Richard Gere jointly with the Spanish non-profit organization, @HOGARSÍ , is partnering with UN-Habitat to place homelessness at the forefront of global housing discuss...
What should shape WUF13? Hear from AUF2 delegates
Leaders and delegates from across Africa and beyond share their perspectives on housing, urban development and the priorities that must guide the ...
In Voices for WUF, Emil Ahmadov, First Secretary and Deputy Permanent Representative to UNESCAP of the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Thailand, highlights why housing is more than shelter — it is the fou...
In Voices for WUF, Safrina Irungu, Youth Representative from Mathare, reflects on the realities of living without adequate housing, and the urgent need to improve conditions in informal settlements...
In Voices for WUF, Paula Jirón, President of Chile’s National Council for Territorial Development, shares why housing must be understood beyond a physical structure.
Homes are connected to communi...