The Housing Rights Index is developed to support training and capacity building activities and is intended for the use of policy makers and urban practitioners to be able to analyse the realisation of the right to adequate housing adequacy in their city. This guide is accompanied by an excel workbook that helps the user to assess the achievement of the seven dimensions of housing adequacy in their city in a dynamic and visual manner.

Rent regulation is a system of laws controlling rents and tenant evictions aimed at ensuring that rentals are affordable. It reduces both the incidence and fear of homelessness by setting substantive and procedural guidelines to control increases in rent and tenant evictions, thereby preventing landlords from profiting from rental shortages and enabling tenants to remain in existing rentals.

This document examines the legal framework regulating the urban landlord and tenant…

This report outlines the results of the research and capacity development activity undertaken by UN-Habitat and Politecnico di Milano's Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, MS Lab, in the West Nile Region, Uganda. The main findings are synthesized with the aim of providing a set of recommendations to support strategic frameworks at regional, city and neighborhood scales to promote synergic development.

This report summarizes the discussions from the 2019 East African Regional Dialogue on Migration and Development in Cities organized by UN-Habitat, UNCTAD, and IOM in Entebbe, Uganda. The two-day dialogue brought together representatives from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia to exchange best practices for fostering social and economic inclusion of migrants, refugees and IDPs in different local contexts.

The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and UN-Habitat facilitate the organisation of an Urban Law Day every year which is a specialised forum that brings together a multidisciplinary circle of academics and practitioners interested in urban legislation, including planners, architects, policy makers, economists, urbanists, and lawyers.
The purpose of the Urban Law Day is to facilitate discussion, the exchange of views, networking, and the presentation of new research findings or…

The Slum Upgrading Legal Assessment Tool is a diagnostic self-assessment tool to identify, in a structured, objective and systematic way, the strengths and weaknesses of the regulatory framework made of all legislation and regulations enacted at different levels and in force in country. It is designed to be used either alone or, ideally, within the context of a broader law reform method that begins with issue identification and legal mapping and moves all of the way through to recommendation

A full account of the proceedings of the United Nations Habitat Assembly on the work of its first session, containing, among other things, chapters on the discussions under each agenda item, is being circulated as document.

These guidelines have been prepared in response to Resolution (RES/71/256. New Urban Agenda)adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2016, which endorses the New Urban Agenda adopted by the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III).

The GG-CDS aims to strengthen urban management in the city and institutional frameworks which deal with infrastructure, the services sector, and natural resource management.