Open Forum: Building Communities, Brick by Brick

Overview Speakers

Access to affordable, safe housing is a basic right, but many face poor conditions, homelessness, or are priced out of neighbourhoods, deepening social inequities and division.

How can we ensure housing policies promote social justice and cohesion and prevent exclusion as well as displacement?

Madeleine von Holzen

Editor-in-Chief, Le Temps

Yevhenii Brovchuk

Global Shaper, Kyiv Hub

Anacláudia Rossbach

Executive Director, UN-HABITAT (United Nations Human Settlements Programme)

Nicholas Moses Ngong

Curator, Cleveland Hub

Mark Edward Rose

Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Avison Young

Miho Mazereeuw

Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, The MIT Climate Project Mission Director: Empowering Frontline Community Action, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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