This book serves as a comprehensive examination of the challenges and best practices encompassing access to adequate housing in BRICS+ nations. It provides insights into the initiatives that can empower BRICS+ countries to build resilient, inclusive, sustainable cities and communities for the future, relevant to the UN SDG 11.

The book is written in a non-technical style in order to be accessible to various actors including non-specialists. In addition, it takes into account perspectives from various stakeholders, including governments, NGOs, academic institutions, financial institutions and citizens. It consults international frameworks and standards for housing, including treaties, declarations, and conventions on the right to housing. With this, it also provides solutions to creating sustainable cities to realise SDG11 and thereby dignify communities with adequate housing.

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Soraya Beukes is a human rights lawyer and social justice advocate with a LLD in Public Law from the UWC. She lectures at Cape Peninsula University of Technology and at the Dullah Omar Institute at UWC in socio economic rights. Her research career is enriched through her multiple Erasmus Mundus international research scholarships.

Marzieh Asaadi is a researcher with a PhD from Glasgow University specialising in international macroeconomics, with a focus on sustainable development and the knowledge-based economy.

Pfano Mashau is a Professor with a PhD in Management Science at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, School of Management, IT and Governance. He lectures at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, in Economics, Local Economic Development, International Business and Research Methodology.

Marina G. Shilina is a Professor with a PhD from Lomonosov Moscow State University at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics and Lomonosov. She holds a post-doctoral degree (D.Sc.) from St. Petersburg State University.

Nazreen Shaik-Peremanov is a human rights lawyer with a LLD from UNISA and has taught at universities spanning from Columbia to Fort Hare to Siberia. She is a visiting academic teaching international law at the Tyumen University.