Nonviolent Choice Directory: Help With Crisis Pregnancy & Beyond: Shelter

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HELP WITH CRISIS PREGNANCY & BEYOND: SHELTER

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Abuse Situations: Hot Peach Pages: International Domestic Violence and Abuse Agencies List & Earth Words: Abuse Info in 75 Languages.

Community Page: Create Community Anywhere. From PlanetFriendly.net, a website based in Canada.

Craigslist. Has available housing notices for cities throughout the world.

Crisis Pregnancy Support. Listings on this page can advise and assist with emergency, short-term, and even long-term shelter. The Nurturing Network, for example, has volunteer households who will gladly take in pregnant women who need housing.

Disabled-Accessible Housing:
Concrete Change.
Independent Living Institute. (English, Swedish.) Has materials on housing for disabled persons, including materials on independent living and universal design (that is, the routine designing of products and services to accommodate the widest possible range of users, including people of diverse disabilities.)
Living Care/Accomodation. Disabled person-accessible housing links from Planet Amber: Global Health and Disability Resource Center.

Habitat for Humanity International. Builds homes for people in poverty.

Homelessness:
Homeless International. At least one in six human beings lives in a slum, known in Latin America as a favela and in parts of Africa as an informal settlement area. Partnership in 11 African and Asian countries to create and improve shelter for all.
Homeless People and the Internet. Online self-help resources by and for homeless persons, many of whom access the Internet for free through public libraries.

Hurricane Tips: Pregnant Women. (Adobe Acrobat, .pdf, file.)

International Cooperative Alliance: Housing. (English, French, Spanish.) Learn about a more community-oriented form of residence. ICA Housing has member organizations throughout the Americas, Asis & the Pacific, Europe, and Africa.

International Union of Tenants. (English, with Dutch, French, German, Spanish, & Italian pages).

One Bag: The Art and Science of Travelling Light. Oriented to travellers, but might also be useful for homeless people, or people without a stable or single place to live.

Reduce Your Housing Costs.

Shack/Slum Dwellers International. News, networking, and advocacy for and by some of the world's materially, but not ethically and spiritually, poorest people. Partners with and links to regional and national organizations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

squ@at!.net, (English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish.) European-oriented but global website on the survival strategy, art form, and/or political statement of squatting, "with main focus on squatted houses, car sites and other free spaces."

United Nations Human Settlement Programs (UN-Habitat). "Mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all."