Fulfilled social functions

A city/human settlement fulfilling its social functions, that is, ensuring equitable and affordable access for all to housing, goods, services and urban opportunities, particularly for women, marginalized groups and people with special needs; a city/human settlement that prioritizes the

Fulfilled social functions

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Building cities and territories of rights

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...

Inspiring Practices Show Housing is at the Center of the Global Agendas

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 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...

The inhabitants in NY, facing the NUA for the Right to the City

The inhabitants in NY, facing the NUA for the Right to the City

The choice of inhabitants at the HLPF in New York: being g-local for the Right to the City facing the New Urban Agenda. New York, July 2018. On the occasion of the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development Goals the IAI, HIC and other international...

The Right to the City, a cornerstone for “leaving no one behind”

The Right to the City, a cornerstone for “leaving no one behind”

The Right to the City is a collective demand and agreement on the need to implement the Global Agendas for Sustainable Development with a human rights approach. "In his book "The Invisible Cities", Italo Calvino asked this question in a work dedicated to urban spaces,...