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The State of Poverty Housing 2009
Latin America and the Caribbean Poverty and
Housing
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The formal market
The informal market
Obtain legal tenure
Building a house in the formal market
Building a house in the informal market
Install infrastructure
Build the house
Move in
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The formal market
The informal market
The Result? The urban population of the
developing world is set to increase from 2
billion to 4 billion in the next 30 years!
1 out of every 3 city dwellersnearly 1 billion
peoplelives in a slum. If unaddressed, this
figure is expected to double over the next 30
years.
More than one million people are born in, or
moved to, cities in the developing world every
week.
UN-Habitat 2007
By the year 2030, an additional 3 billion people,
about 40 of the worlds population, will need
access to housing. That means 96,150 new
affordable housing units need to be built
everyday!
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Can you imagine your own family living in
poverty housing
in a tiny, unventilated room, everyone
struggling to breathe? in a home where
disease-carrying insect infest the walls? where
roofs leak and mud floors melt in the
rain? where you have to walk four-miles to the
nearest source of clean water? in a shelter
that offers no security for you family? Can you
just imagine?
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Tonight 3 billion people, about 40 of the
worlds population will sleep in overcrowded
conditions, cramped in a small room with three or
more people.
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In 2007, the worlds urban population outnumbered
the rural for the first time.
It will take 35.1 million new housing units per
year to house the urban population between now
and 2030
That is 4,000 units per hour
95 percent of the world population growth in the
next decades will occur in the urban areas of
developing countries
These figures dont include replacement of
deteriorated and substandard housing stock
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Every morning
1.6 billion people
Wake up in poverty housing
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If they awake thirsty, the majority cannot
conveniently drink a glass of water from the
kitchen faucet.
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Nor, can they shower comfortably indoors.
Over 35 of city dwellers (3.4 billion) lack
access to safe water
Over 25 of city dwellers (2.6 billion) lack
access to sanitation
Over 20 of city dwellers (2.08 billion) lack
direct access to any type of water
Over 45 of city dwellers (4.6 billion) lack
access to a decent bathroom service (toilet and
shower)
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In most poor families, the head of the household
has completed fewer than three years of schooling
and struggles against unemployment.
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More than one-third of these household heads are
women.
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Over 70 of the worlds inadequately housed are
women
While women do much of home-based and land-based
labor, in many countries (especially Africa and
Asia) they are not allowed to own, control, or
access land and/or housing in their own names
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In fact, women, in Africa, Latin America and Asia
make up the majority of the worlds poor.
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At the current pace, at least 38 and possibly 70
million women and their children will have been
evicted between 2000 and 2020
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4 0ut 5 people lack title to their land
or the house they live in
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Meanwhile, children in impoverished households
grow up in deficient educational environments and
begin working at an early age.
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• No adequate place to study hinders academic
  performance
• Lower educational attainment impoverished and
  unemployed adults
• Children in poverty housing are less likely to
  graduate high school

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As you read this
More than 40 million 5-17 year-olds are
fishing, farming, selling goods on the streets or
selling themselves.
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• 360,000 children around the world are mining
• 760,000 are working in construction
• 1.5 million are working on transportation
• 2.6 million are selling themselves in the streets
• 3.3 million are working in manufacturing
• 3.4 million are working in retail and trade
• 28 million are working in agriculture, hunting
  and/or commercial fishing

As we speak
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Remember the last time you felt your stomach
growl?
for the WHOLE DAY.
Now imagine if you had less than 1 in your
pocket
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About 1.2 billion on 1 a day
Half the worlds population lives on less than 2
a day.
10 million people die each year from conditions
related to substandard housing, unsafe water and
poor sanitation.
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Can you imagine a child with poor health
conditions because of poverty housing
in a tiny, unventilated room, where children are
10 times more likely to contract meningitis,
respiratory problems or asthma? where children
are constantly exposed to Lead-based paint
causing brain damage, nerve damage and
more? where your brother or sister may die if
we cant pay for the medicines? Can you just
imagine?
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Millions of children dont have to imagine a life
in poverty housing for them its all too real
Millions of children dont have to imagine a life
in poverty housing for them its all too real
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How many of those will sleep in slums and
substandard housing before we take action
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It will take HFH Affiliates 5,536 years to solve
the current problem by building one house at a
time.
A Better Solution Service delivery and advocacy
at the current trend the objective of improving
the living and housing conditions of 100 millions
slum dwellers by the year 2020 becomes
unforeseeable
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Every message has several important elements
A hero. Somebody people can relate to.
An obstacle. A conflict to overcome.
A resolution. An ending to the story.
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Habitats simple message (Through 2005)
A hero. Somebody people can relate to.
An obstacle. A conflict to overcome.
A resolution. An ending to the story.
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We need to make a difference

• Build homes

HFHI Families Served Globally

• Mobilize capital

• Transform systems

• Develop People

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HFHIs Advocacy Definition Activities that
include a specific call to action. Promoting
practical housing policy solutions by changing
systems, polices, and attitudes.
www.advocatewithhabitat.org
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Become an active voice
Educate
Advocate
Legislate
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Educate
HFHI has launched a multi-year advocacy campaign
called Build Louder focusing on changing United
States policies on the issues of neighborhood
revitalization and secure tenure to improve
access to adequate and affordable housing around
the world.
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Advocate On-line advocacy tool
www.AdvocateWithHabitat.org With Habitats
online advocacy tool, affiliate staff, volunteers
and other supporters can become advocates for
Habitat for Humanitys legislative priorities.
This link has been created specifically for HFH
affiliates and support organizations so you and
your supporters WILL NOT receive fundraising
materials from HFHI as a result of signing up as
an advocate using the above link. You can
forward this link via email onto your volunteers
and supporters! By asking them to become
advocates as well as volunteers, you will help to
give a stronger voice to those in need of a
simple, decent place to live.
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Advocate
Urge Congress to make adequate and affordable
housing a top priority Photo by photo, Habitat
supporters created a World Habitat Day mosaic
that has been sent to the White House. Help drive
home the point by reminding Congress It all
starts at home.
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Ask Congress to support neighborhood
revitalization Homes around the country are
still being foreclosed at an alarming rate.
Congress can help organizations like Habitat
reclaim vacant properties and turn them into
homesbut it takes resources to do it.
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Tell Congress to pass the Slum Assistance
Act Today, 1 billion people live in slums, and
that number is growing rapidly. The U.S. can be a
leader in the fight to help reduce global poverty
and improve the lives of people living in slums.
Urge your legislators to support the Shelter,
Land and Urban Assistance Act of 2009.
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Legislate
Turning good policy into law

• Be prepared for a multi-year effort
• Success happens when the legislature is not in
  session
• Change will happen keep your goals in mind

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Educate! Advocate! Legislate!
February 24-26, 2010
More than ever
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For More Information

• Government Relations and Advocacy Office
• Habitat for Humanity International
• 1000 Vermont Ave, NW
• Suite 1100
• Washington, DC 20005
• jquinonez_at_habitat.org