Postcards: Floods haunt Belgian town as rebuild seeks to stop repeat disaster
JOANNA GILL, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how flood-hit homes in the town of Limbourg remain empty as authorities consider how to ‘build back better’ to avoid future risks…
After Grenfell fire, UK social housing tenants get ‘stronger voice’
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Social housing tenants in Britain will have new rights to demand improvements to their homes under a reform launched in the aftermath of a deadly 2017 fire at a London block, the government said on Tuesday. The blaze that killed at least 71 people in Grenfell Tower – a 23-storey block […]
UK prayer wall builders to give a million bricks to social housing projects
Those behind the construction of a new “prayer wall” in the UK have announced they plan to donate a million bricks to social housing projects, enough to build 100 new homes. The ‘Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer’ will be located on the outskirts of the city of Birmingham and, taking the form of a giant […]
Egypt: Cautious hopes for slum dwellers relocated in housing project
MENNA A FAROUK, writing for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, looks at an initiative to rehouse slum dwellers in new social housing units…
WOW!: PRIZE-WINNING UK COUNCIL HOUSES SHOW SOCIAL HOMES CAN BE INSPIRED
SONIA ELKS, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on a prize-winning social housing development in the UK…