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Senior Researcher on Housing Justice at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). My work focuses on housing, equality, informality, gender, and participatory urban governance. I work closely with civil society groups, local governments and international agencies in countries across Latin America, West Africa and SE Asia. I was a Research Fellow at the KNOW programme at UCL (2018-2022). I’m member of the Radical Housing Journal. Currently based in Santiago, Chile
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The relationship between planning research and practice plays a key role in shaping global commitments related to urban development. Arguably, this is the case for a ‘global urban agenda’ being articulated at an international scale via frameworks like the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda.
These multilateral commitments have b...
Participation and collaborative approaches to planning have become central in urban debates and practices. Critiques about the limitations of 'participation in planning', however, have led to the development of a series of approaches that build beyond 'collaborative' understandings of planning. Approaches such as insurgent or postcollaborative plan...
Feminist, Southern, and decolonial thinkers have long argued that epistemological questions about how knowledge is produced and whose knowledge is valued and actioned are crucial in addressing inequalities, and a key challenge for planning. This collaborative article interrogates how knowledge is mobilised in urban planning and practice, discussing...
This report was created to support the launch of Habitat for Humanity’s Home Equals campaign for more equitable access to adequate housing in informal settlements around the world. It was produced in partnership with the International Institute for Environment and Development, or IIED.
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The current global housing crisis is sustained by housing systems that do not respond to the reality of the world’s majority. This paper discusses how Addressing this crisis through a ‘housing justice’ lens can open up areas of intervention and transformation for policy and practice that can contest unfair and unsustainable housing systems. It pres...
This paper discusses the role that communication and media practices play for housing social movements, exploring the intersections between unjust communication landscapes and the struggles for housing justice. It is part of a wider research project, ‘Civic media for housing rights: lessons from struggles against evictions in São
Paulo and Lagos’....
In this long read, we share some of the reflections, findings and lessons that have emerged from a collaboration between IIED and SDI affiliates in Harare (Dialogue on Shelter) and Freetown (CODOHSAPA), exploring the value chain of building materials used for housing in informal settlements in both cities.
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Social movements and civil society organisations have long been mobilising to defend housing rights and improve access to decent housing for marginalised communities in Brazil’s largest city. These initiatives are now being combined with efforts to decarbonise the city and reduce pollution to make city spaces more just and sustainable. This reflect...
Since October 2023, we have witnessed the human and material devastation brought about by the horrific mediatised genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, itself preceded by a long history of ‘urbacide’—an intentional form of urban destruction characterised by siege and denied rehabilitation (Chiodelli 2022). In his research on modern wa...
This conversation starts with the introduction of a large-scale research project conducted in 2022 in eight Central and South-Eastern European countries on how catalytic capital investment can enable the provision of affordable rental and cooperative housing in the region. The results of the project prove that while there is a large potential targe...
Urban processes are shaped by heterogeneous knowledges produced by multiple rationalities. Acknowledging this diversity, this article asks: What is the role of universities mobilizing diverse knowledge and their articulation with planning processes? It reflects on the role of Cuban universities in translating diverse and situated knowledge. Buildin...
Elizabeth Andrade Huaringa is a woman, migrant, activist, and housing leader of the informal settlement of Los Arenales in Antofagasta, on the coastal edge of the Atacama Desert, Chile. In 2022, she was awarded the National Human Rights Award precisely because of her work on social rights, women’s rights, migrants’ rights, and above all, her work o...
Elizabeth Andrade Huaringa es una mujer, migrante, activista y líder social del asentamiento informal de Los Arenales en Antofagasta, en el borde costero del Desierto de Atacama, Chile. En 2022 fue galardonada con el Premio Nacional de Derechos Humanos precisamente por su trabajo en derechos sociales, derechos de las mujeres, derechos de los migran...
Across the world, people are calling for action to ensure their right to affordable, adequate, and secure housing and to the city. The housing crisis is affecting cities ranging from San Francisco in the United States to Accra in Ghana, as most housing frameworks fail to respond to the growing demand for affordable and adequate housing, and the hou...
This paper examines the dominant knowledge paradigms that have underpinned planning over time in Freetown, Sierra Leone and their implications for urban equality. Looking at the history of the informal settlement upgrading agenda, it presents this analysis through a historical mapping, outlining the knowledge paradigms that have informed planning a...
Cuba’s capacity to confront challenging scenarios has been internationally recognised and its health system and ability to respond to complex contexts under an overall principle of equality acknowledged. During the pandemic, however, several crises have challenged Havana’s ambitions of equality. COVID-19 coincided with the exponential impacts of th...
Latin Elephant is a London-based charity that works with migrant and ethnic groups in processes of urban change, and which has had a critical role in articulating the voices of traders threatened by displacement in the context of the Elephant and Castle redevelopment plans over the last decade. In this Lexicon Conversation, members of Latin Elephan...
In this conversational piece, the authors reflect on their process of designing an interactive toolkit, named ‘Kaun Hai Master? Kya Hain Plan’ (Hindi for ‘Who is the Master? What is the Plan?’), in a step towards linguistic decolonisation. It was developed as a part of the Main Bhi Dilli (Hindi for ‘I’m Delhi too’) Campaign—a civic society campaign...
In the continuum of intersecting housing crises, the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic are still testing individual and collective capacities to survive displacement, surveillance, precarisation and policing. Issue 3.2 emerges in the context of normalised new and old crises; both from and within the fatigue and normalisation of current ‘exceptional...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a call for a transformative global agenda, outlining a clear commitment to inclusive, sustainable, and just global processes. In particular, the SDGs emphasis on ‘leaving no one behind’ demands a deep engagement with the urbanisation of inequalities, one of the most pressing challenges we face toda...
We came to this issue before the outbreak of Covid-19, and we release it amidst what feels like an entirely new, and yet also entirely known world-order-a place of multiple and multiplying crises that existed before the pandemic and continue, relentlessly, to render certain people, bodies and homes disposable. It is against this cruelty, but also w...
How do global coalitions of civil society, non-governmental and community-based organisations, social movements and academics, make visible, defend and produce habitat rights? This conversation with the President of the Habitat International Coalition (HIC), Adriana Allen, examines HIC’s perspectives on the practices, knowledges and pedagogies for...
This Working Paper is a collection of reflections to explore the notion of ‘institutional capabilities’, and its possibilities to advance the urban equality agenda. KNOW partners from Bangalore, Kampala and Havana reflect on how their research activities are interrogating the capabilities of institutions to translate knowledge into practices, and p...
In 1969, "People and Planning, the Report of the Committee on Public Participation in Planning, was published in the United Kingdom." Commonly known as the "Skeffington Report," it marks one of the first official attempts to think through how publics could be meaningfully engaged in the production of public policies and plans. In this commentary, I...
The Skeffington Report continues the trajectory of the UK’s post-war planning system’s interest in efforts to involve people in planning. The post-war planning system argued for the necessity of people to be involved in planning schemes that would affect them although the weight of decision-making remained firmly with the local state. However, the...
Housing (in)security plays a key role in the economic, social and political experience of residents across different urban settings. Today, millions of people are pushed to dwell under insecure conditions due to a number of factors. These include the financialization of land and housing, the growth of informal housing markets in rapidly urbanizing...
This working paper presents a conceptual inquiry into the relationship between planning research and practice. It proposes to look at the geographies of knowledge production and their influence in policies and planning that advance urban equality. The paper develops a theoretical approach to ‘knowledge translation’ – understood as the encounters be...
This article explores the potential of housing policies to reduce economic, social and political inequalities. Understanding inequalities as issues of distribution and recognition, housing policies have the potential to tackle them by encouraging more equal outcomes and processes. Presupposing the centrality of the urban dimension in current debate...
This thesis explores the role that housing policies have in reducing inequalities through the production of cities. It emerges from intellectual and political concerns: historically the success of housing policies has been mainly measured by quantitative achievements and has been linked to poverty alleviation. But as poverty becomes a rather multid...
¿Cómo se habitan las desigualdades en barrios altamente segregados en Santiago? ¿Cuál es la materialidad de ellas? ¿Cómo es que sectores segregados han contribuido a crear o reproducir desigualdades? Este documento reflexiona en torno a la historia y realidad urbana del sector de Bajos de Mena en la comuna de Puente Alto, intentando sumergirse –med...
Stemming from the assumption that disasters present unique conditions to rethink the associations and relationships among different actors, while acknowledging post disaster reconstruction as a political process that may generate momentum for institutional transformation; this article discusses the institutional responses to housing in such a trans...
Cuando el mundo temblaba por una crisis que tuvo como un importante eslabón a las viviendas devaluadas por la nube tóxica de los créditos Sub Prime, Chile se movía en el sentido contrario. Hasta antes del terremoto del 27 de febrero de 2010, el grupo asesor del gobierno chileno entrante planteaba, en el ánimo de dinamizar la oferta por parte de con...
El contenido de “AGENDA PÚBLICA” constituye el cierre del trabajo realizado en Revista Cientodiez entre los años 2006 y 2009. La motivación detrás de este proceso consistió en tender puentes entre problemáticas inicialmente surgidas en el campo disciplinar de la arquitectura, para avanzar hacia la construcción de agendas de desarrollo. El esfuerzo...
El contenido de “AGENDA PÚBLICA” constituye el cierre del trabajo realizado en Revista Cientodiez entre los años 2006 y 2009. La motivación detrás de este proceso consistió en tender puentes entre problemáticas inicialmente surgidas en el campo disciplinar de la arquitectura, para avanzar hacia la construcción de agendas de desarrollo. El esfuerzo...