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Bookmark or Share- The housing crisis is getting worse – how can we fix it? | World ...The housing crisis could impact 1.6 billion people by 2025, the World Bank says. Shortages of land, lending, labour and materials are some of the factors fuelling the housing crisis. The world needs to build 96,000 new affordable homes every day to house the estimated 3 billion people who will need access to adequate housing by 2030, UN-Habitat ...
- We’re on the brink of a ‘polycrisis’ – how worried should we be?The cost-of-living crisis is the most immediate and severe global risk. Climate-related risks are the biggest future threat facing the world. A polycrisis could have catastrophic consequences including armed conflict. The cascading and connected crises we find ourselves in at the beginning of 2023 demand a new descriptor to define the scale of ...
- 4 practical solutions to the world's spiraling housing crisisThere are a number of practical initiatives happening right now to address the global housing crisis. The World Economic Forum’s Framework for the Future of Real Estate provides an action-oriented roadmap for rethinking our approach to buildings, based around four pillars of liveability, sustainability, resilience and affordability.
- Suicide: What to do when someone is thinking about suicideIn the U.S., call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Or use the Lifeline Chat. Services are free and confidential. U.S. veterans or service members who are in crisis can call 988 and then press "1" for the Veterans Crisis Line. Or text 838255.
- The 20 humanitarian crises the world cannot ignore in 2023Led this year by Somalia, Ethiopia, and Afghanistan, the 20 countries that form the 2023 Watchlist are emblematic of the challenges facing fragile and crisis-affected communities worldwide. Armed conflict, the climate crisis and economic turmoil are pushing a growing minority of the world’s population into ever deeper crisis.
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