• DWA strengthened five key legal frameworks in Angola to ensure gender-responsive land governance, including the Land Law, the Angola Mining Code, the Law Against Domestic Violence, the Plano de Desenvolvimento Nacional 2023/27 (PDN) (National Development Plan), and the Regulation on the Single Window for Land Rights Concession.
• Approval and adoption of the Single Window for Land Rights Concession digital platform to decentralise and formalise land processes, making rights more accessible and transparent for women.
• Developed specific, actionable recommendations to strengthen the law against domestic violence to explicitly include land and housing victimisation as a recognised form of abuse requiring formal court intervention, ensuring that women have legal recourse beyond traditional authorities who may uphold patriarchal norms. 

• Critical role in the development of the Nairobi Urban Agriculture and Food Security Bill (2024), which mandates equitable access to agricultural resources for women, youth, and marginalised groups and institutionalises gender balance by requiring representation on the NCC Urban Agriculture and Food Security Committee.
• Strengthened and institutionalised the link between grassroots lived experiences and formal policy processes by leveraging spaces such as the Nairobi and Environs Food Security, Agriculture and Landscape Forum (NEFSALF) and the Food Liaison Advisory Group (FLAG) to ensure that the voices of women, youth, and small-scale producers directly inform and influence policy processes. 
• Consistent engagement with government officials has led to a shift towards gender-responsive agricultural extension services equipped to reach women in informal settlements. 

• Secured the inclusion of Section 14A of the Upgrading of Land Tenure Rights Act (ULTRA) Amendment, partnering with lawyers in private practice: This established a tangible judicial remedy for women adversely affected by the conversion of township rental accommodation to individual title, enabling them to petition the court to overturn unfair registrations, rectifying systemic injustices and reclaiming tenure rights.

• Ensured the inclusion of key gender-responsive proposals in the Human Settlements White Paper, advocating for equitable housing across four priority areas, including family homes, informal settlements, registered property and rental tenure. This was achieved through active participation in consultations and proactive written submissions in collaboration with community and civil society partners.

• Successfully institutionalised a 1/3 women’s representation quota across critical housing and land-related national legislation, including the Physical Planning (Amendment) Act, the Land Act, and the Building Control Amendment Act. This ensures women’s participation is legally mandated in high-level decision-making bodies that dictate land allocation and urban development.
• Actively participated in reviews for the National Land Policy of 2013 and the Land Act Cap 227, 2010, providing key contributions and position papers advocating for a strengthened gender balance.
• SSA secured institutional commitment by signing Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with local authorities in 4 project districts, stipulating the adoption of citizens’ proposals into annual government planning and budgeting, thereby ensuring that the project’s gender-responsive priorities are integrated. 

• In Tunisia, even among highly educated women, inequality is lived as a structural 10.4% wage gap that directly compromises housing stability and energy autonomy. This disparity means women enter the housing market with 10% less power than men, making them the first to suffer from the privatisation of basic services. This means that when utilities such as water and electricity are privatised, these costs take a larger share of women’s lower incomes, leading to energy poverty.
• Approval and adoption of the Single Window for Land Rights Concession digital platform to decentralise and formalise land processes, making rights more accessible and transparent for women.
• Developed specific, actionable recommendations to strengthen the law against domestic violence to explicitly include land and housing victimisation as a recognised form of abuse requiring formal court intervention, ensuring that women have legal recourse beyond traditional authorities who may uphold patriarchal norms. 

Resistance in both Egypt and Tunisia is manifesting as a movement led by women and advocacy groups calling for the reform of the personal status laws to ensure that divorce or widowhood does not result in the loss of property.

• In Uruguay,  housing titles were historically held by the male breadwinner, leaving women vulnerable to patrimonial violence, where a woman cannot leave an abusive relationship because she has no legal right to the home. The Uruguayan Federation of Mutual Aid Housing Cooperatives (FUCVAM), has, for over 5 decades, proved that through the Social Production of Habitat, collective self-management of habitat is a viable alternative to the speculative market. Its model is built on Mutual Aid, where the labour and organised effort of working families serve as the primary capital to construct high-quality, stable homes on public or collectively owned land. FUCVAM has also successfully pushed for co-ownership laws to ensure women have equal legal rights to housing units, protecting them from homelessness in cases of separation or domestic abuse.

In Spain, the resistance to the financialization of housing is manifested through Tenant Unions such as Sindicato de Inquilinas, a powerful collective resistance in which women are at the forefront of Stop Evictions campaigns, using collective bargaining against large landlords and investment funds and tools like rent strikes, social pressure, and organised civil disobedience to halt evictions. By framing housing as a fundamental right rather than a speculative asset, the Sindicato provides a platform for vulnerable residents, such as Mari Carmen, to transform their private residential insecurity into a public political struggle.

La Morada is a pioneering feminist resistance to the financialization of housing, replacing speculative logic with a model of collective use rights.  Unlike the private market, the building is owned by a cooperative, granting residents a 70-year right-of-use that ensures lifetime stability while keeping the land permanently de-commodified. Its architectural design deliberately challenges the traditional division of labour by socialising care through shared kitchens, laundries, and communal patios, effectively shifting the burden of domestic work from the isolated individual to the collective.  By centering sexual and gender dissidence and offering fees based on project sustainability rather than market profit, La Morada demonstrates that housing can be a common good designed for the sustainability of life rather than the extraction of wealth.