Housing Crisis or Accessibility Crisis?
Day / Time Thursday, June 22nd / 13:30 - 15:30
Event Description
According to ONU-HABITAT, of the world's total population of 6 billion, almost 1 billion live in shanty towns. The lack of sufficient housing at affordable prices means that a housing crisis which appeared to have been resolved is breaking out again in most countries, even in those that are less poor. Indeed, building houses is not always enough; a sufficient number of them should be made accessible to low income households. The RHF workshop entitled "Housing Crisis or Accessibility Crisis" will present a two-fold reflection dealing with the general problem of financing social housing and access to housing for all.
Session Language
English
French
Speakers
Paul Jean Le Roux, Président de RHF,bESH BSB (France)
Najet Karaborni, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, (NY - USA )
Claudel Toussaint, SHQ ( Canada )
Intervenants: - Paul Jean Le Roux, président de RHF, président de la SA HLM Bâtiments et Styles de Bretagne (France) - Sidi Ould Salem, directeur général de la SOCOGIM(Mauritanie) - Claudel Toussaint, vice-président aux relations avec la clientèle et les partenaires à la SHQ (Canada) - Najet Karaborni, conseiller interrégional principal, Département des affaires économiques et sociales, Nations Unies
Host Organization
Reseau Habitat et Francophonie
Host Organization Description
'Réseau Habitat et Francophonie' brings together professional agencies from the social housing and urban development sectors in French-speaking countries. The members of RHF come from 18 French-speaking countries on 4 continents (Africa, America, Asia and Europe ) and are organised as a world-wide network. All are committed professionally to the sector of urban development, rehabilitation of slum quarters and social housing either as developers, builders or bankers. The association promotes the access to suitable housing for the needs of one family. RHF members are all professionally committed to this action both on a worldwide scale and in the countries where they work. The association makes it possible to: - break professional or language isolation; - organise twinning projects; - constitute a genuine place for exchange and reflection; - share experiences in order to establish optimal models of practices; - carry out actions for the development of skills and human resources; - produce two top-level international conferences annually.
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