Communal and Collective Forms of Land Tenure & the Right to Housing
Channel: Havens Wright Center for Social Justice
Date: 25/09/2022

A lecture by Yves Cabannes exploring the theoretical and empirical importance of collective, communal, cooperative forms of land tenure in relation to the rights to housing and to the city to then propose a classification schema of non-individual regimes of land tenure.

Yves Cabannes is Professor and Chair of Development Planning at Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London. From 2004 to 2006 he was lecturer in Urban Planning at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and an economist, planner and urban specialist. From 1997 until December 2003, he was the regional Coordinator of the UN Habitat/UNDP Urban Management Program for Latin America and the Caribbean. He has particular experience and interest in urban agriculture & Food sovereignty, local currencies, participatory planning, municipal public policies, low cost housing, participatory budgeting, community-based micro credit systems and appropriate technologies for local development. He is an advocate on development and rights issues and was the convener for the UN Advisory Group on Forced Evictions (2004 -2010) and the senior advisor to the Municipality of Porto Alegre, Brazil, for the international network on participatory budgeting. He is currently a member of the board of the International RUAF Foundation (Resource Centres for Urban Agriculture and Food Security), The World Fund for City Development (Metropolis), HuiZhi (Participation Centre, Chengdu China) and the Participatory Budgeting Project (USA).