New Project on Urban Humanitarian Housing
The research group Spatial Development and Urban Policy (SPUR) and its Humanitarian Planning Hub are launching a new collaborative research project on urban humanitarian housing in Beirut, Lebanon, and Bogotá, Colombia (SNSF Spirit Grant).
Urban humanitarian housing is one of the most significant challenges for today’s humanitarian actors, who are seeking new ways of providing adequate housing for displaced persons in cities. At the same time, a growing number of refugees are struggling to find affordable and dignified housing, often resorting to dwelling in informal neighborhoods.
This project seeks to generate new perspectives on the housing situation of displaced persons in Bogotá, Colombia, and Beirut, Lebanon, in an effort to make a transformative contribution to improve humanitarian housing responses as well as the lives, well-being, and agency of displaced persons.
The project collaborates with the external page Beirut Urban Lab (BUL) at the American University of Beirut and the external page Instituto Pensar at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá and is funded by the external page SNSF Spirit Grant.
More information on the project can be found here.