“Reconciling the human and the urban, reconciling the economic and the social.” Bernard Devert, founding president of Habitat et Humanisme

For over 35 years, to address the exclusion and isolation of people in difficulty, Habitat et Humanisme has been working to provide housing, promote social integration, and rebuild social connections. With a strong focus on innovation, the Movement has developed tools at the intersection of economic and social issues.

ACTIONS FOR HOUSING

For over 30 years, France has been experiencing an unprecedented housing crisis, with vulnerable people bearing the brunt of it. This crisis is multifaceted, affecting both the quantity and quality of housing. Faced with this intolerable situation, Habitat et Humanisme is taking action at the local level.

To provide housing for people in difficulty:

By producing very low-income housing through its real estate companies.
By mobilizing housing from private and public owners who entrust it with their properties through the Owners and Solidarity schemes.

To combat urban segregation and promote a city open to all:

Habitat et Humanisme favours locating housing in “balanced neighbourhoods” and, through support, fostering openness to the neighbourhood and urban life.

To address the various facets of precariousness, particularly those related to isolation and age:

Habitat et Humanisme develops and experiments with various types of housing and innovative housing solutions, family boarding houses, intergenerational housing, nursing homes, and any other collective housing that allows us to respond to specific situations encountered in the field.

ACTIONS FOR SOCIAL INTEGRATION

And to support people in their social integration, Habitat et Humanisme also works to support people in difficulty

Profound loneliness, increasing job insecurity, social exclusion, and health problems particularly affect the elderly, students, single-parent families, and vulnerable isolated individuals. Finding a place in society and having others recognize it is the support that local support can provide to every tenant or resident of Habitat et Humanisme.

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