Expert Voices 2025: Access to Sustainable and Affordable Housing

In this media article, Anacláudia Rossbach discusses the global housing crisis, highlighting its severity and the growing number of people living in inadequate housing. The article outlines key strategies to address the crisis, including reforming development control policies (e.g., zoning and land use regulations), improving equitable housing finance systems, and upgrading informal settlements. It emphasises the need for systemic reforms, inclusive urban planning, and government collaboration to ensure affordable and adequate housing. It also presents examples of successful policies from different regions and stresses that housing should be recognised as a fundamental human right. 

This forms part of a wider set of Expert Voices 2025 presenting perspectives from 13 leading experts on affordable housing.

Abstract based on original source.