Housing Performance Assessment (hpa) From Monitoring to Strategizing Safe, Affordable, and Sustainable Communities

This master class equips city stakeholders, policy makers, and planners with an integrated approach to design a Housing Performance Assessment (HPA) as a practical system that helps transform fragmented housing interventions into more holistic and sustainable housing outcomes through strengthened coordination, integrated policies, and measurable impact. Across many contexts, housing decisions remain insufficiently informed, constrained by , weak monitoring despite housing being central to addressing multiple pressing challenges, including inequality, health, climate resilience, and inclusive urban growth. The HPA responds to these gaps by linking three complementary phases: • Diagnosis: assessing needs, deficits, typologies, and spatial patterns; • Monitoring: tracking change over time, progress, deterioration, and market dynamics; • Decision support: translating evidence into policy options/trade-offs, prioritizing actions, optimizing resources and investments, and strengthening pathways toward more sustainable housing systems. Anchored in a sustainable, inclusive, and integrated approach and informed by relevant frameworks and our prior experiences, the session is structured as follows: 1. Why an HPA? (10 min): participants align on the purpose and expected value of establishing a simulation system for housing performance. 2. How an HPA advances the SDGs and the New Urban Agenda (10 min): linking housing evidence to outcomes and accountability. 3. Benchmarking on measuring housing performances (20 min): a practical overview of core monitoring dimensions and indicator families, drawing on UN-Habitat references (including SDG 11.1.1, housing adequacy and affordability, security of tenure, housing safety and resilience, and the City Prosperity Index). 4. From indicators to decisions (60 min): a hands-on exercise in which participants develop a Housing Platform Canvas tailored to their context: selecting priority indicators, mapping partners, and defining decision criteria (e.g., social housing needs, finance, infrastructure, environmental footprint, and market trends). 5. Operationalization (20 min): outlining enabling guidelines and a phased roadmap to institutionalize monitoring, support better housing typologies, and strengthen equitable and sustainable housing finance. The format balances short technical inputs with peer exchange and applied work.