No good housing without good transportation - approaching the connection between urban mobility and the housing crisis

The Clean Mobility Collective is a global network of over 100 civil society organizations dedicated to advancing healthy, safe, and fossil-fuel-free cities. We propose a Global South–focused networking event to bring together key stakeholders and explore how cities are addressing the critical link between urban mobility and the housing affordability crisis. After decades of prioritizing sprawling housing and private vehicle expansion, many cities are now working to integrate affordable housing and sustainable mobility policies. Historically, this disconnection has produced expensive and inaccessible transport systems, deepening social and economic inequalities by limiting access to employment, education, care, and public services—particularly for women. Aligned with SDGs 5, 10, and 11 and the NUA, this event will create a solution-oriented discussion to examine how integrated housing-mobility policies can reduce daily costs, expand opportunity, and improve quality of life in rapidly urbanizing contexts. Through mixed-use developments along transit corridors, innovative financing mechanisms, zero-fare or subsidized public transport, and safe access measures for women, cities are generating scalable and impactful solutions. WUF13 offers a unique platform for organizations and authorities to exchange experiences and explore these integrated approaches, linking the housing crisis with urban transport and advancing more just, inclusive, and sustainable cities. Drawing on innovative policy approaches and on-the-ground initiatives from our network members, the discussion will be participatory, facilitating peer learning, strategic exchange, and partnership building, while supporting the implementation of UN urban and development agendas from local to global levels. The event will center dialogue on the interdependence of housing, mobility, and affordability, highlighting policies, tools, and practices that advance SDG 5 and SDG 11 through gender-responsive housing and transport systems. It will also underscore the central role of care work, everyday mobility patterns, and safety in promoting inclusive and equitable urban development.