“We need to build homes, not just mortgages.”

Miguel Castro & Mariana Mazzucato stress that governments are setting housing targets divorced from carbon goals and locking us into a destructive cycle.

Our new discussion paper is out today
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'Modern housing: an environmental common good', is a new discussion paper launched today, and the third in a series of publications by the Council on Urban Initiatives that focus on housing.

Explore these and our other resources on the CUI website.
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In our new discussion paper, Dan Hill & Mariana Mazzucato argue that current housing systems prioritise the needs of investment funds & construction companies over people & the planet.

It's time for a bold rethinking of housing as a common good.
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Leaders & academics collaborate to tackle global poverty, inequality, & climate change through the Council on Urban Initiatives Initiatives led by UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose Mariana Mazzucato LSE Cities @UNHabitat & Impact on Urban Health. Learn more in #TheBartlettReview article by Isadora Schappell.
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65% of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets can’t be achieved without the engagement and efforts of local governments.

The CUI brings together leaders & academics from across the world to transform our cities.
Mariana Mazzucato Ricky Burdett UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

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Are cities taking the lead on climate change?

New blog (Catalina Duarte) discusses some of the dynamic contributions from two CUI council members at the COP 28, and explores the evolving role of cities in the fight against climate change.
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE

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Maimunah Sharif was instrumental in establishing the Council on Urban Initiatives and we thank her for her leadership in supporting green, healthy and just cities.

Huge congratulations to Lesley Lokko (one of our CUI council members) for her much deserved #RoyalGoldMedal .

Our Council on Urban Initiatives Initiatives project seeks to create #green , just, & healthy #cities .

Find out about one such initiative to transform Bogotá’s #care system using existing #infrastructure in this interview of Diana Rodríguez Franco w/ Dan Hill

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Many congratulations to Mayor Claudia López Hernández (CUI Council Member) for this recognition of your important work developing the Care System in #Bogota .

Tuesday 5th December was Day 5 for me at COP28. The day started with me speaking at the UN Press Conference on the Global Cooling Pledge on behalf of C40 Cities. Later that day I participated in a high level panel at which the Global Cooling Pledge was launched by COP28 President…

Council on Urban Initiatives co-chair Mariana Mazzucato Mariana Mazzucato has a full schedule of speaking events during #COP28 .

CUI Council Member Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr is engaged in wide range of events and conversations during #COP28

On day two of #COP28 Claudia López Hernández spoke at the @Bloombergdotorg #mayorsinnovationstudio w/ LSE Cities' @AtJuliaKing.

She spoke about her achievements & policies implemented in Bogotá including the Care System explored in this CUI case study report: councilonurbaninitiatives.com/resources/shap…

Join CUI council member at a discussion about housing later this month ⬇

Dan contributed an essay - 'Sustainable living under difficult circumstances' to our recent Housing in the City case study report.

Read his piece and download the full report.
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New publication by Council on Urban Initiatives: Housing and the City. alan pert and I have a piece in it, on Nightingale's sustainable innovation within Melbourne's highly financialised housing sector, alongside great pieces on Barcelona, Bogotá, Charkop, Singapore etc.

Today at #HD2023 @BurdettR is launching a new publication by Council on Urban Initiatives Initiatives – Housing and the City – sharing case studies of housing projects from different cities developed to promote inclusive, sustainable and integrated designs.
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CUI Co-chair Ricky Burdett, launches our new Housing and the City report at #HCD2023 stating that health and housing are inextricably linked and that we must consider and build on Sir Michael Marmot's social determinants of health.

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