Home at all costs.
Because Home is Everything
The Shift works with governments, communities, and advocates around the world to reorient housing around people rather than profit. We build the research, frameworks, and political tools needed to challenge financialization, uphold human rights, and change the rules that make the current system possible.
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The Shift is a global organization working at the intersection of housing, finance, and climate through a human rights lens. We believe that the right to adequate housing is not an aspiration; it is a binding obligation that governments have already agreed to meet. Our work is grounded in that conviction: that housing systems can and must be held to a human rights standard, and that lasting solutions come not from managing the crisis but from transforming the conditions that created it.
Housing is Not for Sale: A Call to Action
Investor Guidelines
We’re often told that affordable housing is not the responsibility of market housing providers. However, truly responsible investing plans for the future – and the future is human rights.
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The Shift connects and mobilizes anyone working to secure the right to housing.
