18 May 10:00 - 12:00

Mismatch

The goal of ensuring that all people have access to adequate housing depends largely on striking a balance between the type of housing required and the type of housing produced in a given context. In many contexts, for various reasons, including rapid urban growth, lack of development of the construction sector, demographic changes, or the pace of construction and adaptation of existing housing, among others, housing production is not sufficient to meet the needs of the population, resulting in the emergence of slums, substandard housing, the proliferation of inadequate housing, or the phenomenon of empty housing. Other elements that have become increasingly relevant in recent years, such as issues related to climate change, gender, or the pandemic, have demonstrated the inadequacy of existing and built housing about the current needs.

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Speakers

Sara Topelson

Director, Fundación Centro de Investigación y Documentación de la Casa, México

Amira Osman

Professor of Architecture at the Tshwane University of Technology

William O. Rodríguez

Secretary of Housing, Puerto Rico

Gulnara Roll

Regional Advisor, Forests, Land and Housing Division at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, Switzerland

Saskia Sassen

Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. 2013 Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences. Only woman in the world’s top ten social scientists.

Cameron Sinclair

Founder and director of Worldchanging Institute

Elisabete França

Executive Director of the Mananciais Program at the Housing Department of the city of Sao Paulo

Javier Burón

Metropolitan Housing Observatory of Barcelona (O-HB)

Laia Grau

Urban Planning Manager of the Barcelona City Council

Álvaro González

Councillor for Housing of the Madrid City Council.

Exemplary Cases

Madrid: Álvaro González, Councillor for Housing of the Madrid City Council

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Barcelona: Javier Burón and Laia Grau, Barcelona City Council

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Sao Paulo: Elisabete França, Executive Secretary, Sao Paulo Housing Department

Elisabete França is currently Executive Director of the Mananciais Program at the Housing Department of the city of Sao Paulo and Professor at Fundação...

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