People-Powered Housing: How Communities Take Control (A chance to find out more from World Habitat Award winners and share your ideas)

2016 marks thirty years of the World Habitat Awards, co-ordinated by BSHF in partnership with UN-Habitat. The World Habitat Awards promotes solutions to housing problems around the world. This event features the excellent practice of Self-help Housing in the North of England (UK) and Caño Martín Peña Community Land Trust (Puerto Rico), winners of the 2015-16 Awards.
Self-help Housing in the North of England is delivered by Canopy and Giroscope, charities that train homeless and vulnerable people to renovate abandoned properties and bring them back into use. The renovated houses provide low cost homes for local people who are homeless or in housing need. Caño Martín Peña Community Land Trust (CLT) is transforming eight informal settlements around a polluted, flood prone channel into a sustainable community. Using the CLT mechanism provides a new model for improving informal settlements in cities and enables existing residents to remain, develop and enjoy the improvements to the area without being priced out. These projects, based within cities in different contexts, demonstrate the power that the mobilisation and direct action of people living in vulnerable communities can have in exercising their rights to housing.
The winners will provide insights into their approaches, barriers to progress and the successes and impact achieved. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions, share observations and discuss their own experiences and challenges. Previous World Habitat Awards winners and finalists will be invited to the event to facilitate broader learning and the sharing of good housing practices from all over the world. The external judges of the World Habitat Awards will be invited – Dr Joan Clos, the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) and Ms Leilani Farha, UN Special Rapporteur Housing – to join in celebrating this year’s winners and the 30 years of the Awards.
 2016 marks thirty years of the World Habitat Awards, co-ordinated by BSHF in partnership with UN-Habitat. The World Habitat Awards promotes solutions to housing problems around the world. This event features the excellent practice of Self-help Housing in the North of England (UK) and Caño Martín Peña Community Land Trust (Puerto Rico), winners of the 2015-16 Awards.
Self-help Housing in the North of England is delivered by Canopy and Giroscope, charities that train homeless and vulnerable people to renovate abandoned properties and bring them back into use. The renovated houses provide low cost homes for local people who are homeless or in housing need. Caño Martín Peña Community Land Trust (CLT) is transforming eight informal settlements around a polluted, flood prone channel into a sustainable community. Using the CLT mechanism provides a new model for improving informal settlements in cities and enables existing residents to remain, develop and enjoy the improvements to the area without being priced out. These projects, based within cities in different contexts, demonstrate the power that the mobilisation and direct action of people living in vulnerable communities can have in exercising their rights to housing.
The winners will provide insights into their approaches, barriers to progress and the successes and impact achieved. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions, share observations and discuss their own experiences and challenges. Previous World Habitat Awards winners and finalists will be invited to the event to facilitate broader learning and the sharing of good housing practices from all over the world. The external judges of the World Habitat Awards will be invited – Dr Joan Clos, the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) and Ms Leilani Farha, UN Special Rapporteur Housing – to join in celebrating this year’s winners and the 30 years of the Awards.
 2016 marks thirty years of the World Habitat Awards, co-ordinated by BSHF in partnership with UN-Habitat. The World Habitat Awards promotes solutions to housing problems around the world. This event features the excellent practice of Self-help Housing in the North of England (UK) and Caño Martín Peña Community Land Trust (Puerto Rico), winners of the 2015-16 Awards.
Self-help Housing in the North of England is delivered by Canopy and Giroscope, charities that train homeless and vulnerable people to renovate abandoned properties and bring them back into use. The renovated houses provide low cost homes for local people who are homeless or in housing need. Caño Martín Peña Community Land Trust (CLT) is transforming eight informal settlements around a polluted, flood prone channel into a sustainable community. Using the CLT mechanism provides a new model for improving informal settlements in cities and enables existing residents to remain, develop and enjoy the improvements to the area without being priced out. These projects, based within cities in different contexts, demonstrate the power that the mobilisation and direct action of people living in vulnerable communities can have in exercising their rights to housing.
The winners will provide insights into their approaches, barriers to progress and the successes and impact achieved. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions, share observations and discuss their own experiences and challenges. Previous World Habitat Awards winners and finalists will be invited to the event to facilitate broader learning and the sharing of good housing practices from all over the world. The external judges of the World Habitat Awards will be invited – Dr Joan Clos, the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) and Ms Leilani Farha, UN Special Rapporteur Housing – to join in celebrating this year’s winners and the 30 years of the Awards.
 2016 marks thirty years of the World Habitat Awards, co-ordinated by BSHF in partnership with UN-Habitat. The World Habitat Awards promotes solutions to housing problems around the world. This event features the excellent practice of Self-help Housing in the North of England (UK) and Caño Martín Peña Community Land Trust (Puerto Rico), winners of the 2015-16 Awards.
Self-help Housing in the North of England is delivered by Canopy and Giroscope, charities that train homeless and vulnerable people to renovate abandoned properties and bring them back into use. The renovated houses provide low cost homes for local people who are homeless or in housing need. Caño Martín Peña Community Land Trust (CLT) is transforming eight informal settlements around a polluted, flood prone channel into a sustainable community. Using the CLT mechanism provides a new model for improving informal settlements in cities and enables existing residents to remain, develop and enjoy the improvements to the area without being priced out. These projects, based within cities in different contexts, demonstrate the power that the mobilisation and direct action of people living in vulnerable communities can have in exercising their rights to housing.
The winners will provide insights into their approaches, barriers to progress and the successes and impact achieved. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions, share observations and discuss their own experiences and challenges. Previous World Habitat Awards winners and finalists will be invited to the event to facilitate broader learning and the sharing of good housing practices from all over the world. The external judges of the World Habitat Awards will be invited – Dr Joan Clos, the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) and Ms Leilani Farha, UN Special Rapporteur Housing – to join in celebrating this year’s winners and the 30 years of the Awards.