[Recording] Housing for an Ageing Society: Rethinking Homes, Communities, and Care

Together with Cécile Poirier, Development Advisor in the Real Estate Strategy and Housing Department, City of Montreal (Canada), Fernando Ortiz-Moya, Assistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Tokyo (Japan), Alyssa Brierley, Executive Director, National Ageing Institute (Canada), and Laura Colini, Researcher, Housing in the City, Università Iuav di Venezia & Co-founder of Tesserae Urban Social Research (Italy), the webinar explored the central question: How should we rethink homes, communities, and care for our ageing populations?

Opening remarks were delivered by Ombretta Tempra, Chief of the Land, Housing, Informal Settlements and Shelter section at UN-Habitat.

This webinar explored how housing shortages, accessibility needs, and underlying social and economic inequalities intersect, and why improving coordination across housing supply, adaptation & mitigation, and accessibility can benefit an aging population.