The world is at a tipping point: more than 150 million people globally are living without a home during the biggest pandemic in a century.
Adequate housing is the most effective defense against COVID-19. This should mean one thing: governments must recognize housing as a human right and end homelessness around the world. Instead, in the last six months we have seen an increase in mass evictions, a growing number of informal settlements and encampments, and more people living in homelessness than ever before.
The pandemic has amplified the housing crisis and exposed it as a human rights crisis by demonstrating that access to home is a matter of life and death.
This is a human rights moment. It’s time to end homelessness in all countries, regions, cities, and communities.