«Where are we going to live? Data, projects and attempts to solve the housing problem in Latin America”, carried out by the 7th Generation of the Latam Network of Young Journalists, received an honorable mention in the Lincoln Awards of the Institute of Press and Society (IPYS)
The Lincoln Awards of the Institute of Press and Society (IPYS) published the list of the winning works of the 2024 edition. It also announced the titles of the research that received honorable mention, among which stand out «Where are we going to live? Data, projects and attempts to solve the housing problem in Latin America», carried out by the 7th Generation of the Latam Network of Young Journalists.
The award is dedicated to the memory of Tim LopesBrazilian journalist murdered while doing research for a report on the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. The Lincoln Institute is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to land use, taxation and administration for more than 75 years. Through education, research, publications, and multimedia outreach, the Lincoln Institute identifies and recommends creative approaches to land use as solutions to communities’ economic, social, and environmental challenges.
«Where are we going to live? Data, projects and attempts to solve the housing problem in Latin America » es is a journalistic and regional investigation on access to housing, which focuses on three population groups: young people, women and people of LGBTI+ diversity in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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The text, in which the journalist from SuchWhich Ariadna García shows an overview of the responses that some organizations, independent groups and governments are providing to resolve this situation in Latin America. In the research, stories, analysis of projects, programs and public legislation in this regard are made available to the reader.
The work identifies solutions or good practices in this matter, where a team of 45 journalists from 16 countries in the region participated, spending more than five months reading 80 legal instruments and nearly 80 housing projects in 20 countries in the region. Of the latter, they selected 10 to investigate their operating model and levels of success.
«The difficulty of millions of people in Latin America in accessing their own home is a complex problem that has social, economic and even cultural causes. However, in all countries, this problem results in an additional situation: uncertainty. We don’t know, in reality, how we are going to live, where, or how we will pay the cost of decent housing,” the text reads.
The research adds that “throughout the region there is a growing increase in labor informality and this is usually marked by instability at work, low or variable income and lack of social protection, which directly affects the purchasing power of young people.” and the possibility of accessing credits or housing programs.
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