Advocacy

While Habitat for Humanity works to partner with as many families as possible to provide decent, affordable housing, the worldwide housing crisis remains huge. In the Europe and Central Asia region more than 98 million people – 20 percent of the total population – live on less than USD $2 per day. Millions of people lack access to clean water, sanitation and heating system. Further, the privatization of housing stock in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia in the 1990s left many low-income households and vulnerable groups without affordable options for decent housing. To address this need, Habitat for Humanity is pairing its successful building efforts with advocacy around housing issues. Through advocacy, Habitat for Humanity works to transform systems that allow poverty housing.

Habitat for Humanity works with, and on behalf of, communities affected by poverty housing. Our advocacy efforts aim to give public voice to the ones who do not have the capacities, skills and resources to stand up for their rights and needs. We seek to highlight housing problems and their causes that have been neglected by public policies, and we focus on changes to make housing affordable and accessible. This involves monitoring public policy issues and community development related to housing, and advocating for policy choices that expand access to decent, affordable housing in Europe and Central Asia.