The right to adequate housing
Habitat Korea seeks to advocate the right to adequate housing to bring about sustainable and innovative solutions to housing issues.Habitat Korea is at the forefront of the fight to
bring about the international agreement to end poverty.
Habitat Korea is building ‘a world where everyone has a decent place to live’.
However, housing issues are worsening due to the environmental degradation, economic inequality, urbanisation, and humanitarian crisis at a global scale.
Habitat for Humanity, as a leading housing organisation, has a responsibility to bring about positive and profound changes to housing issues.
Habitat for Humanity, therefore, is conducting global advocacy movements and calling for policy changes through evidence-based solutions.
Habitat for Humanity’s knowledge as an expert in the field of housing welfare has been a leading tool to convince the government officials of the importance of adequate housing in ending poverty.
Habitat for Humanity’s advocacy movement has 5 key points.
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Prioritisation of policy to make affordable home accessible across the globe
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Discriminate the information about good practice for housing policy, the right to adequate housing, the positive impact of the residence-centred development to nurture the ground for more sustainable local development
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The importance of adequate home in sustainable development and humanitarian aid
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Policy proposal based on gender equality and protection of the marginalized
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Agenda 2030, the New Urban Agenda, Introduction of policy and advocate activities, meeting the Sendai Agreement
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Development priority
- Creating the environment where everyone could have a decent place to live
- Guaranteeing the accessibility to housing through financial support
- Guarnateeing the fair access to housing as long as it does not impitch the rights of housing and land ownership of others
- Encouraging all relevant parties into the policy-making process
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Humanitarian priority
- Building a community with the ability to recover from disaster through shelters
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Sustainable Development Goals(SDG ) 11
As an international housing NPO, Habitat for Humanity advocates SDG 11 ‘Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’. By implementing various programmes surrounding the housing issues, Habitat for Humanity is attempting to achieve SDG 11.
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Solid Ground Campaign
With a slogan ‘Land is the foundation for life’, Habitat for Humanity conducted a global campaign, calling for policy changes to guarantee safe and adequate housing. In 4 years of campaign, there had been policy changes in favour of gender equality, disaster risk resilience, the right to adequate housing, slum improvement and others in 12 countries, which helped over 3 million people stablise their living conditions..
