UN Standard for Housing 🌎 🏡: Security of Tenure

Homes should be safe havens for families. This standard ensures occupants have legal protection against forced evictions, harassment, and other threats, providing stability and freedom.

New Story + Google collaboration is helping empower 130 families in El Salvador to become homeowners using the blockchain and the Lightning Network.

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UN Standard for Housing: Habitability

Habitability ensures homes provide a safe and suitable environment to protect from physical and environmental hazards.

A habitable home is crucial for families to live with dignity and comfort.

Haiti's continued turmoil and suffering breaks our hearts. Families are facing food insecurity, and Mission of Hope is working hard to deliver food. Generous supporters can scale and fuel this work.

If you’d like to help these families, donate here: missionofhope.com/project/disast…

Poverty primarily affects those living in rural areas — people who depend on land, but lack formal access to it.

We invest in land because we believe it’s the catalyst for people, especially women, to take control of their lives from the ground up. 🌱

A key that unlocks affordable housing is land.

With partnerships and investments, New Story buys and develops land to make it affordable for families.

This opens up opportunities for generations.

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UN Standard for Housing 🌎 🏡: Availability of Services 🚰

This standard emphasizes the need for safe drinking water, adequate sanitation, energy for cooking, heating, lighting, food storage, or refuse disposal, which are all vital for families to live safely and healthily.

Homes should be usable and accessible for everyone including people with disabilities, the elderly, and families with young children.

Buildings, services, and amenities should be designed and constructed in a way that everyone can access them without facing barriers.

ICON Unveils New Construction Technologies for Lowest Cost, Fastest, and Most Sustainable Way to Build at Scale iconbuild.com/newsroom/icon-…

What does innovation mean to New Story? Innovation helps us unlock housing solutions that are more affordable, more sustainable, and more inclusive.

.New Story 🏡 has been working on a pilot in El Salvador in partnership with @Coinbase, equipping unbanked families to make digital mortgage payments.

This is the first time low-income, unbanked families are using this technology to successfully pay for their homes and build

Studies have shown women with strong property and inheritance rights earn up to 3.8X more income and increase their savings by up to 35%.

This is why we ensure at least 60% of the people we serve are women. Learn more: newstoryhomes.org/blog/land-righ…

UN Standard for Housing 🌎🏡: Location 📍

A true home is more than just a space. It links us to our community and opportunities. This standard ensures housing is never isolated from essential services like employment, education, health care, and social facilities.

UN Standard for Housing: Cultural Adequacy

Home is where our traditions thrive.

This standard focuses on creating spaces that honor and embody the identities of their occupants.