Sustainable urban housing policies in the era of post-covid climate change mitigation

Abstract

This paper briefly reviews recent and current approaches to the formulation and implementation of urban housing policies in towns and cities in the global South, with emphasis on local government-community participation and partnerships. It looks ahead into the implications of the lasting impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and tenets of climate change that will constitute the ‘New Normal’.

Keywords

• low-income group housing
• community participation
• subsidiarity
• devolution
• local governance
• partnership
• global heating
• climate change
• coronavirus