Thomson Reuters Foundation Reports on Prindex Global Launch

July 15th Prindex Global released findings that nearly one billion people worldwide feel that they are at risk of losing their land or property.

Thomson Reuters’ Zoe Tabary interviewed GLA’s Executive Director, and Prindex co-Director, Malcolm Childress on the importance of this data and continuing to cooperatively engage with local leaders, academics, politicians, land activists, and stakeholders around the world how to address the pandemic of insecure housing.

"Land and housing insecurity is a huge issue hiding in plain sight," said Malcolm Childress, executive director of the Global Land Alliance, a Washington-based think tank that compiles the index with the British Overseas Development Institute.

"Tenure security is important for individual decision making and has knock-on effects on what people do with their assets, whether they send their kids to school, or invest in better crops," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

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