Today at World Urban Forum 2026 in Baku, Habitat for Humanity International and UN-Habitat, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, signed a Letter of Intent to strengthen future collaboration aimed at advancing adequate, affordable and resilient housing solutions worldwide.
 

Habitat urges governments at the 13th session of the World Urban Forum, WUF13, to place housing at the heart of its development agenda, Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat said in an exclusive interview with Trend on the sidelines of the forum.

Greetings from the World Urban Forum in Baku, Azerbaijan, where housing is the center of the agenda this year. Habitat launched our new Global Housing Continuum, a framework designed to help policymakers, advocates and partners better understand the full spectrum of housing conditions.