Housing as a human right
Table on housing to Esparreguera
Archive for year: 2019
16è Workshop interdisciplinar
“Nous temps: reformulant els rols de les professions immobiliàries”
https://housing.urv.cat/transferencia/2019-2/16e-workshop-interdisciplinar/
Congress “Building the right to housing”
In the last 50 years, the prices of housing in developed countries have increased three times more than the prices of other basic services. The challenges surrounding housing, such as affordability, the proliferation of slums and the increase in urban inequality, have adversely affected the quality of life of people, with serious impacts on the sustainability of the city.
In this context, UN Habitat organized on Wednesday and Thursday 27 and 28 March the congress “Building the right to housing” with the aim of helping the member states in the process of implementing the right to decent housing, repositioning housing in the contemporary global debate on inclusive cities with sustainable and viable economies, both environmentally and culturally and socially.
Two days and twenty protagonists
Professor Sergio Nasarre, director of the UNESCO Chair of Housing of the URV, is one of the 20 invited to participate in this congress. An event that also has José Mujica, former President of Uruguay; Christophe Lalande, leader of the housing unit of UN-Habitat; Joan Clos, former Mayor of Barcelona and former Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations and Habitat III; Sorcha Edwards, of the General Secretariat of Housing of Europe, the European Federation of Public, Cooperative and Social Housing; o Reinhard Goethert, professor and researcher at MIT focused on urbanization and housing in developing countries and founder of the Global University Consortium Exploring Incremental Housing, among others.
The Cerdà Institute
The Cerdà Institute, together with Barcelona Global, ESADE, La Vanguardia and Sogeviso organized last March 26, 2019, under the direction of Joan Clos, former Mayor of Barcelona and former head of UN Habitat, the conference “Affordable housing: the role of urbanism and the local administration “, in which Dr. Sergio Nasarre was invited to intervene. Divided into three panels (Challenges of housing: affordable housing, Alternatives for access to affordable housing: public-private collaboration and financing and affordable housing), the quality of the presentations was high and the debate intense. The conference was closed with the intervention of the candidates for the Mayor’s Office of Barcelona.
https://www.icerda.org/cat/noticies/n/199
International Workshop
Dr. Héctor Simón has taken part in the International Workshop “EU Economic Governance and the Charter of Fundamental Rights” addressing how the European institutions are dealing with non-performing loans and how the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union may play a role in the decisions taken so far. The Workshop took place in Dublin on Friday, March 22, within the framework of a European project led by Dr. Padraic Kenna.
Meeting of the Coordination Committee of the European Network for Housing Research
During the 22nd and 23rd of March, the meeting of the Coordination Committee of the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR), the largest network of researchers on housing in Europe, was held in Barcelona, in which Dr. Sergio Nasarre took part. There the new bylaws of the entity were discussed and the preparations being developed for the ENHR2019 international congress in Athens and ENHR2020 in Nicosia were presented, while deciding the headquarters of ENHR 2021.
Radio
Interview with Dr. Héctor Simón on the radio.
Congress Building the Right to Housing
As part of the implementation process of the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda, the event is organized “Building the Right to Housing”, a discussion forum that will be conducive to assessing the state of the recognition of the right to housing as a fundamental human right, and the progress of the precepts and objectives arising from the international agendas in relation to the subject.
Conference
On March 19, Dr. Sergio Nasarre was invited to the University of Girona to give a session on collaborative economy, housing and tourism.
