Description: Cities for Housing
Cities for Adequate Housing Group 2 Declaration Cities Organisations People How to join #MakeTheShift Blog Download the declaration fr es Group Introduction 01 More powers to better regulate the real estate market 02 More funds to improve our public housing stocks 03 More tools to co-produce public-private community-driven alternative housing 04 An urban planning that combines adequate housing with quality, inclusive and sustainable neighbourhoods 05 A municipalist cooperation in residential strategies Citi
We, the local governments, are the public officials who are most sensitive to the everyday needs of our citizens. In the contemporary world, lack of national and state funding, market deregulation, growing power of global corporations, and increasing competition for scarce real estate often become a burden on our neighbourhoods, causing serious distortions in their social fabric, and putting the goal of ensuring equitable, inclusive, and just cities at risk. We, the local governments strongly believe that a
We, the local governments require regulatory and enforcement tools to protect our neighbourhoods from speculation. Furthermore, we need the tools to protect the use of housing as homes for people living in the cities we represent. We also require instruments to regulate the housing rental market, protecting tenants from speculative bubbles and giving them the right to greater security of tenure. Likewise, we demand mechanisms to implement value capture from real estate operations for the common good, both i