The UNESCO Housing Chair takes part in the Point-in-Time Count of roofless people, in which 70 people are located sleeping in the streets of Tarragona

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The Point-in-Time Count of roofless people in Tarragona took place the nightof the 14th to the 15th of May 2019. 70 people were located sleeping rough (58 men, 9 women and 3 no identified) and 14 more sleeping in the homeless shelter (13 men and 1 woman), bringing the number of roofless people to 84. Several researchers of the UNESCO Housing Chair collaborated both in the organization of the Counting and taking direct part in it as volunteers.

https://tarragonadigital.com/tarragona/reportatge-recompte-tarragona-sensesostre

 

Publication

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“The social impact of research in the field of housing. The case of the UNESCO Chair of housing of the Rovira i Virgili University”

Prof. Dr. Sergio Nasarre Aznar and Gemma Caballé Fabra.

Born from a need to return to society the results of many years of intenseresearch on mortgage and housing law, the University Rovira i Virgili Housing Chair  was created as a functional vehicle to transfer knowledge and to achieve a tangible social  impact through facilitating access to housing.

This article describes the circumstances  that led to the establishment of the Chair, the only UNESCO Housing Chair in the  world, and analyzes its value chain, which links research with specialized teaching,  knowledge transfer and social impact. The article also presents key aspects of the Chair  and provides examples of its activity and impact with specific results

http://www.revista-rio.org/index.php/revista_rio/article/view/247

Counting roofless population. 14th May 2019. Would you like to volunteer?

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The Xarxa d’Atenció Integral de Persones Sense Llar de Tarragonais leading, once again, thePoint-in-Time Count of roofless people in Tarragona. It will take place the night of the 14th to the 15th of May 2019. The first Counting was undertaken in May 2017 and 43 people sleeping rough together with 49 people sleeping in accomodation for the homeless were counted. These Countings are crucial to give dimension and to shape up the issue of homelessness in our city, consisting on one of the first steps to tackle this phenomenon.

The Xarxa (Network) was spurred by the Municipal Institute for Social Services in Tarragona (IMSST) and the UNESCO Housing Chair is part of it, together with public authorities, social entities and other university institutes.

Check the following link in order to register as a volunteer for the May Counting: https://www.tarragona.cat/serveis-a-la-persona/serveis-socials/sensellarisme.

 

 

Congress “Building the right to housing”

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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.

Science in 1 minute

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Intermediate tenures

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boOnX5sR-Do&list=PL8yyYJSAXdwlU48Bau0IcC8Jhud-tSy97&index=17&t=0s

Intermediate tenures2

 

Congress Building the Right to Housing

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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.

http://www.construyendoelderechoalavivienda.es

Debate League

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Prof. Dr. Sergio Nasarre is a Jury member of the Debate League.

http://diaridigital.urv.cat/lequip-josef-ajframers-guanyador-de-la-lliga-de-debat-universitari-2019/

 

Infovivienda

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Infovivienda.es is a website promoted by the UNESCO Chair of Housing of the Rovira i Virgili University, which has the objective of making practical and rigorous information available to the public on the different forms of housing (property and mortgage, rent and intermediate tenures) and housing as a human right in the form of Q & A.

http://www.infovivienda.es