IUT World Conference

The IUT World Conference is held every three years to share experiences and information from tenants’ movements all over the world to strengthen their work and enhance the situation for tenants. The conference is a way to lift issues and promote the right to decent and safe housing and the situation for tenants in different parts of the world. Before the 2017 revision of the IUT Statutes, the World Conference was referred to as the IUT Congress.

2023 IUT 22nd World Conference

The World Conference was held on 19-21 April 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Attached is the programme IUT Program Webb

We had participants from 22 countries and speakers from several continents.

The theme chosen was: Tenants for safe and affordable housing.

Click here to read Report and Mini survey from Members.

Sessions were lively and interactive and included daily workshop sessions where participants exchanged knowledge on many topical subjects including political and media campaigns, social media use by Tenants’ associations, the sharing economy, the financialisation of housing, the experience of start-up associations in the Balkan, the Barcelona model, the housing crisis in Ireland and much more.

Film Presentations from the conference will be available here shortly.

The conference participants have contributed to a mini survey and report that focuses on the tenants’ associations’ responses to the global housing crisis and their experiences over the past three and a half years since the last conference.

The participants issued a joint statement available here.

Presentations:

Bent Madsen – Housing Europe – Navigating the Cost-of-Living, Inflation Crisis – Committed to Housing for All

Claus Højte – Media Management – Achieving Political Goals on a Minimal Budget

David Zimmerman – Financialisation of Housing

Filipa Roseta – Municipal Housing Charter – Habitar Lisboa

Glen Hodgson – Social media for Associations

Jasminka Tadic Husanovic – CENSOR

Javier Buron Cuadrado – BCN Housing Model

Luis Mendez – Short-term rentals, IUT Actions

Maja Staleska – Housing and Tenants Organization – HTO

Ola Palmgren – Swedish Union of Tenants election campaign

Paloma Taltavull – Sharing Economy in the Housing Market

Rory Hearne – Gaffs, why no one can get a house – and what we can do about it

Report of Activities – IUT Stockholm – 2019-2023

Activity Plan – IUT Stockholm – 2023-2026

Finacialisation of housing – VONOVIA

Report of Activities – IUT Brussels – 2019-2023

Plan of Actions – IUT Brussels – 2023-2026

2019 IUT 21st World Conference

Theme: UN Sustainable Development Goals, especially SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities.
When: Thursday 3rd to Friday 4^thOctober 2019
Where: Vienna, Austria

The 21st World Conference will take place in Vienna Austria on 3rd and 4th October 2019.
Attached is the programme and registration document. Already we have participants from 23 countries and speakers from several continents.

The theme this year will be the 2030 Agenda, including the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 11 “Sustainable Cities and Communities”.

Sessions will be lively and interactive and will include roundtable sessions where participants will hear about best practice and exchange knowledge on many topical subjects including political campaigning by Tenants’ associations, short-term rental platforms and touristification, how to attract and retain members, strategies against skyrocketing rents and an opportunity to learn about rent negotiation systems around the world .

There will also be study visits to the unique housing models in Vienna and extensive networking opportunities.

The conference participants have contributed to a mini survey and report that focuses on The United Nations’ sustainable development goals and the financialisation of housing. It is available here.

IUT congress statement: Global Housing: Action – not just words
IUT Survey: IUT Member reports to the World Conference

Presentations:
Christian Bartok – Mieterhilfe
Claudio Acioly – Message from UN-HABITAT
Dan Nicander – Political campaigning by Tenants Unions
Daniel Glaser – The Vienna model for affordable housing
Eddie Jacquemart – The importance of organising tenants
Ellen Geurts – The UN sustainable development goals
Erik Elmgren – How to recruit and retain members
Karin Zauner-Lohmeyer – Housing for All
Martin Hofverberg – Short term rental platforms
Paulus Jansen – Social agreement of the Woonbond and landlords
Wibke Werner – Strategies against skyrocketing rents