By Anne BURLAT, urban planner and architect While in France, the issue of the  right to housing  raises issues about social housing and its ability to respond to a variety of situations, in urban areas in the Global South, it immediately conjures up the iconic image of the  slum . This word has almost disappeared from scientific articles seeking to clarify the subject (precarious, informal, spontaneous housing, etc.). It returned to the forefront of the French scene in Decemb

By Carlos Moreno, Scientific Director of the ETI Chair, IAE Paris Sorbonne, Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University, Member of the French Academy of Technologies, the American Academy of Housing and Communities, and Sigma Xi, the international honor society for scientific research. 1. A multidimensional housing crisis In 2024, according to estimates by the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat), approximately 1.1 billion people worldwide will be living in precario

By the Executive Board of AdP - Villes en Développement Presentation of the Urban Thinkers Campus: “Reinventing Housing”   The choice of the Familistère de Guise was no coincidence.  Built in the 19th century by the visionary industrialist Jean-Baptiste André Godin, the Familistère was much more than a collection of workers' dwellings. A veritable “social palace,” it foreshadowed a form of integrated collective housing that combined dwellings, community facilities, and space