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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Habitat Bulgaria has successfully implemented a 6-year program for improvement of the living conditions of low-income families 16.02.2021 - Over the past 6 years Habitat Bulgaria has been implementing an effective model for providing holistic community support, which includes: • housing microfinance for low-income families; • increasing the local community capacity by delivering life skills training seminars for the beneficiary groups; • providing additional social and community services through a grant funding scheme for […]
IV National Housing Forum “Overcoming the housing and energy poverty – a prerequisite for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals” 27.01.2021 - With the Third National Housing Forum held in 2019, Habitat Bulgaria has put a strong emphasis on the growing need to secure access to housing and renovation of the poor neighbourhoods. This year, the organization builds up these issues by organizing the Fourth National Housing Forum “Overcoming the housing and energy poverty – a prerequisite […]
MEPs: Access to adequate housing should be a fundamental European right 21.01.2021 - • Adequate housing to include high-quality drinking water and sanitation • Call for an EU-wide goal to end homelessness by 2030 • Housing costs should be kept affordable by law MEPs call on the EU to recognise access to decent and affordable housing as an enforceable human right and to push for measures to eradicate […]
Survey for identifying the housing needs of families from poor neighborhoods in Targovishte and Sliven 21.12.2020 - In the past few months Habitat for Humanity Bulgaria conducted a representative sociological survey of the housing situation in two regions of the country – Sliven and Targovishte. The survey went through several stages: a field study in 800 households was carried out in 4 communities with predominantly Roma population, two focus group discussions on […]
Right to Energy Coalition 17.12.2020 - 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 […]
The survey for identifying the housing needs of families from poor neighborhoods in the Municipality of Sliven has started 20.08.2020 - After starting the fieldwork in the region of Targovishte in July, now the research in Sliven is on the go. Sliven Municipality is the second location where Habitat Bulgaria will conduct a representative sociological survey to define the housing conditions and needs in the region. Based on that research Habitat Bulgaria will prepare a report […]