Affordable Housing Atlas Demonstration

The first Affordable Housing Atlas presented at the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid (COAM).


This new tool aims to look into the issue of housing access on a global scale. The approach to the issue is supported by data provided by multiple sources, making it possible to describe the planet on a global scale using the criteria of the Affordable Housing Activation (AHA) scientific committee, which has defined different barriers contributing to housing inaccessibility.

Sources include the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund and Google, among others. By translating all this data in a uniform way in terms of qualities and standards, the tool provides a vast amount of information on a single platform in a coordinated way.

In the presentation, it has been shown how the Affordable Housing Atlas facilitates access to all this data to support a deeper understanding of the issue of housing access on a global scale, allowing users to compare countries and cities, and to inform public policies to help improve access to affordable housing.