The right to adequate housing in a time of civilization-threatening climate change: how will nations respond to these twin imperatives which, on the surface at least, appear to compete for national attention and funding?
The need for affordable housing was already a growing series of life-threatening crises world-wide even before COVID-19 piled extra pressure on people with very low and no incomes.
Meanwhile, a global consensus demands massive changes NOW in order to mitigate the threat of climate change to human civilization.
The article that follows explores urban resilience — the capability of cities to withstand the impact of change. While apparently focused away from the need for human shelter, it unearths a striking and unexpected link between social housing and climate change.
The city of Vienna, with a unique and highly successful commitment to social housing, views that commitment not as a competitor for urban resilience funding, but as an essential and all-important foundation of its urban resilience.
Read more in URBANLAND: Rethinking Resilient Cities around the Globe
