On #WorldWaterDay, MHM Needs a Spotlight The fight for clean and accessible drinking water has a distinctly female charge to it. Around the world, 1 in 9 people do not have clean water close to home, and every day, the task for collecting that far-away water falls into women’s hands, forcing them to walk miles to and […]
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In Seattle, homeless camps become a permanent part of the city
Seattle has one of the worst homelessness problems in the United States, and it is dealing with it in an unprecedented way. While homeless encampments are not unknown to cities in the United States, the city of Seattle has allowed 11 homeless camps to become permanent parts of the city. These are camps that did […]
Read MoreThe Power of Property Rights: Women, Land Rights, and Secure Tenure
It is the dancing that I remember most! Everyone was dressed in their best clothes, and the eyes of the women were shining with pride – the shine enhanced by tears. The place was outside Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The year was 1998, during President Mandela’s program to develop housing for those who were living […]
Read MoreSuccessful Courses for Real Estate Agents in Serbia will continue to be organized by Real Estate Cluster in 2018
February 2018– With the support of IHC Global, the Real Estate Cluster in Belgrade organized two courses over Fall 2017 for real estate agents, managers and brokers, where participants had the opportunity to learn about business standards developed by the world’s largest association of Real Estate agents, the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The instructor […]
Read MoreVoices of WUF9
The exhibition hall at WUF9 was the most entertaining room to be in. A bright, wide open space, it served as the setting for nations and organizations showcase their programs and engage with each other. Free food was everywhere; a line of people waited for freshly brewed coffee from the German booth; creative spaces were […]
Read MoreIHC Global at WUF9: A Look Back
It rains often in Kuala Lumpur. As six o’clock in the evening ticks over to 6:01, a deluge falls from the sky like clockwork, soaking the ground and everything on it within seconds. But residents and tourists in the city center don’t need to worry much about shielding their smartphones or covering their shopping bags […]
Read MoreEvent Recap: Improving Informal Settlements in Urban Africa Event
February 21, 2018 The Wilson Center, along with International Alert, Urban ARK, and USAID, held an event that explored slum upgrading projects in Kenya and Mozambique and the affects they have on reducing risk. Mark Pulling, Professor of Geography at King’s College and leader of the Urban Africa: Risk Knowledge (Urban ARK) research program, gave […]
Read MoreIHC Global Mourns the Passing of Tom Kingsley
IHC Global is greatly saddened to report the passing of Tom Kingsley on Saturday, January 20, 2018. Tom was a noted urban scholar and the author of many influential papers on housing and urban development in the US and internationally. After a long, distinguished career, Tom most recently served as Senior Fellow at the Urban […]
Read MoreIHC Global at the World Urban Forum
The days are ticking down until the ninth World Urban Forum (WUF9) begins, and IHC Global is eagerly anticipating a week’s worth of diplomatic exchanges, dialogues and events focusing on urban development and the implementation of the New Urban Agenda. The World Urban Forum is the next in a series of global conferences on urban […]
Read MoreWhat will the new people-centered housing policy in Canada mean?
As housing crises grip both developing and developed nations around the world, some nations are taking actionable steps to bring affordable and decent housing back to their cities and rural communities alike. One of these nations is Canada, where a new National Housing Strategy has recently been released. This strategy comes as Canada’s housing crisis has deepened […]
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