{"id":118648,"date":"2020-02-14T11:45:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T15:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/namati.org\/?p=118648"},"modified":"2023-01-11T12:02:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T16:02:47","slug":"it-takes-legal-empowerment-to-solve-the-housing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/namati.org\/news-stories\/it-takes-legal-empowerment-to-solve-the-housing-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"It takes legal empowerment to solve the housing crisis","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/sdg16plus\/it-takes-legal-empowerment-to-solve-the-housing-crisis-9111c515101d\">In this blog<\/a>, the authors argue that the global housing problems are a denial of justice and legal empowerment is a solution to this injustice.<\/p>\n<p>According to the authors, resolving the housing injustice starts with empowering people and communities to know, use and shape the law.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when 1 in 4 people globally lack adequate housing, the importance of community paralegals in supporting communities access justice cannot be understated.<\/p>\n<p>The reflections are drawn from a <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.grassrootsjustice.network\/t\/webinar-it-takes-legal-empowerment-to-solve-the-housing-rights-crisis\/54407\">webinar<\/a> the authors organised last year as well as their experiences in supporting informal settlement communities in Argentina, Kenya, Mexico and Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The blog was written by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adrianidrc?lang=en\">Adrian Di Giovanni<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idrc.ca\/\">IDRC<\/a>),<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlobalNamati\">Luciana Bercovich<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/namati.org\">Namati<\/a>),<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/meganschapman?lang=en\">Megan Chapman<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justempower.org\/\">JEI<\/a>),<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SilviMex\">Maria Silvia Emanuelli<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/hic-al.org\/\">HIC-AL<\/a>),<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leilanifarha\">Leilani Farha<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/issues\/housing\/pages\/housingindex.aspx\">UNSR<\/a>),<\/li>\n<li>Emily Kinama (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.katibainstitute.org\/\">Katiba<\/a>),<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pablovitale_?lang=en\">Pablo Vitale<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/acij.org.ar\/\">ACIJ<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a guest blog for Pathfinder, Namati and members of the Legal Empowerment Network discuss the global housing crisis and how to support informal settlement communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":18912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-network","impact_scale-more-than-1-million-people","issues-housing-rights-informal-settlements","languages-english","namati_post_type-in-the-press","namati_programs-globallegalempowermentnetwork","region-global","tool_types-news-opinions","vulnerable_populations-urban"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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