On the 12th of June 2024, Habitat for Humanity in Lebanon held a full-day event entitled “A Dialogue on Housing in Lebanon”, at the Beirut Digital District – BDD 1280.

The Dialogue was organized in collaboration with the UN-Habitat Lebanon Country Programme, the Beirut Urban Lab (BUL) at the American University of Beirut, and the Catholic Relief Services (CRS).

Objectives

The main objective of the Dialogue was to create a momentum of interest by convening relevant actors from both the public and non-profit sectors including the Public Corporation for Housing (PCH), the Order of Engineers and Architects in Beirut (OEA), public officials (parliamentarians, and municipality officials, among others), local and international NGOs, funding agencies, and other experts and professional actors (researchers, architects, planners, developers, academics, activists). Watch a brief recap of the event below:

To learn more about the event read the report below:

The intent is to host similar events (dialogues, forums…) aiming to promote adequate and affordable housing, discuss and address issues related to the housing context in Lebanon including challenges and opportunities facing the housing sector as well as shocks and stressors (such as wars and conflict, displacement, economic crises, pandemics…), and to offer innovative solutions to housing challenges, with a focus on vulnerable populations. This year’s Dialogue represents a continuation of the first Dialogue “Examining the local housing context, challenges, and opportunities”, held in October 2022, in collaboration with CRS and BUL, which you can learn more about here.