On December 10, 2020, Habitat Bulgaria was accepted as a full member of the European coalition Right to Energy.
The coalition unites trade unions, anti-poverty groups, social housing providers, NGOs, environmental campaigners, health organisations and energy cooperatives across Europe.
The Right to Energy coalition actively campaigns to tackle energy poverty at an EU, national and grassroots level.
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Bulgaria can go further to enhance long-term care for older people and secure housing for Roma communities 07.07.2026 - Strasbourg, 6 July 2026 – The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O’Flaherty, conducted a visit to Bulgaria from 29 June to 3 July 2026. The visit focused on the human rights of older persons living in long-term care facilities, as part of the Commissioner’s broader engagement on this issue across Council of Europe […]
From informal settlements to secure homes: what Bulgaria learned from Romania 29.04.2026 - April 21–23, 2026, Bulgaria–Romania: Institutions and municipalities exchanged best practices for transforming informal settlements into sustainable and safe communities. How can unregulated neighborhoods be turned into secure and dignified places to live? And how can national and local authorities join forces to break the long-standing cycle of poverty? These questions were at the heart of […]
Minister Nikolay Naydenov: It is imperative to immediately start working on a new National Housing Strategy 22.04.2026 - The elaboration of the new national housing strategy of Bulgaria is to be commissioned. In the assignment for this strategy, we will focus on the problems regarding social housing and neighbourhoods, defined by data and research – socio-economic, statistical, spatial, territorial-structural, sociological, financial and successful practices. This was announced by the Minister of Regional Development […]
Guidebook on Best Practices towards the reduction of energy poverty and firewood use 22.11.2024 - Action C8 of the LIFE BioBalance project and Activity AIII.1 of the BioJust project focused on demonstrating and evidencing solutions to increase the capacity and knowledge of low-income rural communities to reduce firewood-dependency. The Action consisted of three main elements: ● Research on energy poverty and household biomass use – Fuel of the Poor study. […]
Habitat for Humanity pledges access to resilient housing solutions ahead of the Buildings and Climate Global Forum in Paris 06.03.2024 - PARIS (March 6, 2024) — Today, in recognition of housing’s critical role in climate mitigation and adaptation, Habitat for Humanity has made specific programmatic commitments toward accelerating low-income families’ access to low-carbon, resilient housing solutions. Furthermore, through its Home Equals campaign, Habitat for Humanity is calling on governments at all levels to prioritize locally led adaptation actions that directly […]
Bulgaria: Renovating the unfit housing stock / Feantsa case Study #2 18.11.2023 - More than 19.2 million people in Europe, 4.2% of the total population, were experiencing severe housing deprivation in 2020. Unfit housing has a dramatic affect on the health and wellbeing of households, from physical affects such as respiratory infections and asthma, or the danger of the physical collapse of buildings, and mental toll resulting in […]