Antonio Campagnoli: Three billion people will need housing by 2030

By 2030, approximately 3 billion people will need access to adequate housing, stated Antonio Campagnoli, President of the International Real Estate Federation of Italy, at the Business Assembly held within the framework of the 13th session of the World Urban Forum (WUF13) in Baku, Report informs.

According to him, the responsibility facing countries is not just about building more housing: "It is about building housing that is adequate, affordable, climate-resilient, well-located, connected to services, and capable of supporting real communities. We need to do this at a scale the world has never seen. By 2030, approximately 3 billion people will need access to adequate housing, which should concern all of us - governments, institutions, communities, and of course, the private sector."

He noted that the housing issue is not a single crisis: "It takes different forms in different places, but its roots are often similar. Fragmented planning, land constraints, regulatory delays, insufficient infrastructure, unequal access to finance, and poor coordination along the value chain. Therefore, housing must be understood as a system: not as a single construction issue, not as a simple supply and demand matter, but as a chain of interconnected conditions. If one link in this chain is weak, the entire system underperforms."

Campagnoli emphasized that it is necessary to stop treating housing as a secondary market issue and to recognize it as fundamental social and economic infrastructure.