The United Nations has designated the first Monday in October as annual World Habitat Day.

McElroy Films just wanted to take a moment to bring awareness to World Habitat Day on October 4th 2010. Habitat for Humanity is a great organization and we’ve seen their work first had in our own state of Massachusetts. Below you can watch the video that McElroy Films produced early this year for the South Shore Habitat for Humanity. Also, be sure to check out http://worldhabitatdaynews.org/.
On Oct. 4, 2010, in recognition of World Habitat Day, Habitat for Humanitywill raise awareness of the need for improved shelter and highlight Habitat’s priorities: the worldwide connection between human health and housing, and, in the United States, neighborhood revitalization. These themes echo the United Nations’ chosen theme for 2010 for events in the host city of Shanghai, China and the rest of the world: “Better City, Better Life.”

Every week, more than a million people are born in, or move to, cities in the developing world. As a result, the urban population of developing countries will double from 2 billion to 4 billion in the next 30 years. (Kissick, et al: 2006)

By the year 2030, an additional 3 billion people, about 40 percent of the world’s population, will need access to housing. This translates into a demand for 96,150 new affordable units every day and 4,000 every hour. (UN-HABITAT: 2005)