June 13, 2023 5:00 PM

Housing Loans, Mortgaged Lives

Speakers

Yahia Shawkat

Co-founder and Research Coordinator, 10 Tooba

Simone Tulumello

Assistant Research Professor of Geography, University of Lisbon

Soha Mneimneh

Urban Planning Researcher, Beirut Urban Lab,American University of Beirut

Walid Marrouch

Session Chair and Discussant

Professor of Economics and the Assistant Dean ofGraduate Studies & Research, Lebanese American University

Event description

Join us throughout June 2023 for a series of online presentations and discussions entitled "Housing Uncertainties, Financial Crisis, and Social Protections".

It features leading scholars and practitioners working towards the right to housing who will explore comparatively questions at the intersection of housing inequalities, forced displacement, and financialization.

Co-organized by The Beirut Urban Lab (BUL) at the American University of Beirut (AUB), Habitat for Humanity (HfH) through the Lebanon National Programme and the MENA Urban Housing Practitioners Hub (MENA-UHPH),the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat).