Thank you to Lori Ferriss, AIA, PE and everyone else who joined us yesterday for our event at #ClimateWeekNYC: Let's Make Housing its Own SDG - Reframing the Post-2030 Agenda.
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“Access to housing is fundamental to human dignity, to having a future.” This statement from Hoboken mayor Ravi Bhalla sums up the conversation and the need at Build Change’s fantastic #climateweekNYC panel Let’s Make Housing its own SDG, featuring their very own Elizabeth Hausler and Angie Henderson Moncada, Lea Ranalder with UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme), and Michelle Milford Morse with the United Nations Foundation. We are faced with a global challenge: build enough adequate housing for the nearly 3 billion people on this earth who are on track to live in substandard housing, make it affordable and equitable, make it resilient, and do it with a small carbon footprint. As discussed today, this is not a problem of technology, it’s one of social will. The panel illustrated again The disproportionate risk placed on women, children, and those living in informal settlements. But also the opportunity for education, economic growth, physical safety, and health that come with housing. It was truly and inspiring discussion. #climatejustice #resilience #housing