Urban Social Forum - World Urban Forum 2010

Rio de Janeiro at the junction towards the World Assembly of Inhabitants


Following the success of the World Zero Evictions Days, preparations for the World Assembly of Inhabitants (WAI) continue. The WAI will be held at the Dakar WSF in 2011. Several Promotor Committees have already been set up in various countries, with further committees currently taking shape on every continent: in particular, there are plans to set up committees during this year’s Social Forums.
These preparations make the Rio de Janeiro step (22-26 March 2010) a major event. It will include the Urban Social Forum (USF), organized by local urban social movements and international housing rights networks, and the World Urban Forum 5 (WUF5), organized by UN-Habitat.

The Urban Way

Building together the World Assembly of Inhabitants!

The Madrid Declaration

... we call and support the convocation of a World Assembly of Inhabitants for 2011 ...

The Urban Way

Creating A Common Global Space Of Solidarity For Urban Social Movements


This is an appeal for the unity of urban social movements which strive to give concrete expression to economic, social and cultural rights, as well as housing rights in particular. It is launched by the organizations and networks of inhabitants, co-operatives, tenants’ unions, community centres, original populations and committees for housing rights all over the world.

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Santo Domingo: Evictions, People’s Housing Funds and Collective Property Cooperatives
As part of the World Zero Evictions Days 2007 campaign, a wide variety of national and international institutions are organizing a workshop in Santo Domingo on Evictions, People’s Housing Funds and Collective Property Cooperatives. The aim is to highlight the progress of the creation of a People’s Fund for Housing and Land which is providing millions of people, who are subjected to housing insecurity and evictions in Peru and the Dominican Republic, with access to land and prope... »»

WSF 2007: Seminar "The Popular Fund for the right to Land and Housing"
Non-payment of debt and the redirection of funds into housing and basic public services In addition to a hundred or so representatives of social organisations and delegates from sixteen countries, the following figures attended the seminar organised by the IAI and the Forum of Local Authorities »»