The Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Anacláudia Rossbach, declared in an interview published by El País on November 10, 2026, that "the housing policies we had are not working".
According to the article available at https://elpais.com/economia/vivienda/2026-11-10/anaclaudia-rossbach-onu-habitat-las-politicas-de-vivienda-que-teniamos-no-estan-funcionando.html, Rossbach stated she is currently at a critical transitional moment for national and regional urban housing strategies.
The expert underscored the need to build "a social agreement" that enables addressing current challenges related to access to habitable spaces, especially in rapidly growing urban contexts under high demographic pressure.
She did not specify details about which specific policies she considers failed or what new proposals should be implemented. The statement was presented as part of an overall analysis of the current state of housing in Latin America and the Caribbean, although no figures or particular cases within that region are detailed in the available content.