Author(s): Elizabeth Andrzejewski, Marcus Shaffer & Esther Obonyo
Globally we are experiencing an unprecedented housing crisis. On December 26th 2019 as the United Nations called for the “Implementation of the Right to Adequate Housing”, they attribute our growing global housing crisis to unequal access to adequate housing caused, for the first time, by socio-economic inequality rather than access to building materials. As the wealthy buy and sell housing as a commodity, they increase their financial gains while driving the poor deeper into poverty. Among those driven deeper into poverty are more than 1 billion people living in informal settlements and more than 1.8 billion people lacking adequate housing. While inequity currently contributes heavily to our global housing crisis, we are experiencing a crisis of overlapping problems such as labor shortage, an ongoing pandemic, and worsening climate change.
Volume Editors
Rico Quirindongo & Georgeen Theodore
ISBN
978-1-944214-39-5