World Habitat Day

A driver's been killed by an airstrike in Sudan despite his truck being clearly marked as an aid vehicle.

Meanwhile, on World Habitat Day, 3.4 billion people across the globe lack adequate housing.

And the UN calls for stronger social protection schemes in Asia and the Pacific amid increasingly extreme weather.

In South Kurdistan, in Sudan, an airstrike on two aid trucks has left one of the drivers dead, the UN World Food Programme said on Monday.

Nearly 3.5 billion people are still being denied adequate housing around the world, according to the UN's urban development agency, UN Habitat.

This includes over one billion who live in informal settlements and slums, and many more who experience homelessness or have been displaced by conflict, disasters and climate change.

At a gathering of representatives from governments, civil society and academia in Amman on Monday, marking World Habitat Day, the agency's executive director, Ana Claudia Rosbach, stressed that adequate housing is a critical human right.

Investing in adequate housing and transforming informal settlements reduces poverty, tackles inequality, builds climate resilience and fosters peaceful and inclusive societies.

is we will be releasing this podcast on October 5th.

It is World Habitat Day.

So for our listeners, is there one message you'd like to leave them with after the conversation we've had today for them to really walk away with in terms of the work that either UN Habitat is doing here in Canada or the work that we can do as a generation to start pushing forward some housing reform?

Yep.

Indeed, we call it Urban October because we have the World Habitat Day at the beginning of the month, and then we have World Cities Day, and both of these will be commemorated respectively in Muscat Oman and in Fuzhou, China this year by UN Habitat.

is around adequate housing for all, Habitat Day and urban revitalization and housing for World Cities Day.

And these are important moments where we look at how cities are where the biggest global challenges become local realities.

It's National Child Health Day, and it's National Do Something Nice Day.

It's also World Habitat Day and Country Inn Bed and Breakfast Day.

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No food for today, so eat whatever you want.

And they're not exactly tasty either.

World Architecture Day and World Habitat Day and World Teachers Day.

So if you're a teacher, congratulations.

Today's your day.

Hold on.

Today is World Habitat Day.

Observance highlighting the condition of the world's towns and cities and everyone's right to adequate shelter.

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Uh, World Architecture Day, World Habitat Day, and World Teachers Day.

Mm.

So, uh, which, uh, leads us to the poll question we'll get to in just a second.

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