The strength of the Coalition is based on its worldwide membership, relating in a same approach social movements, community based organizations, NGOs, academic centers and persons with a specific compromise on housing issues. HIC brings together organizations of diverse origins, scales, and natures:

• Social organizations and movements, associations, cooperatives, that unite inhabitants struggling to implement their rights to the city, land, and housing.
• Civil or nongovernmental organizations, unions, that unite professionals and technicians who act in solidarity with peoples’ causes and who orient their work to support habitat production and social management processes.
• Academic groups, researchers, and technicians focused on urban and housing issues and others, such as the environment and gender, that cross the broad field of human habitat.
• Organizations and activists interested in promoting, defending and guaranteeing the fulfilment of the human rights linked to habitat, in particular in relation to the homeless, the evicted and displaced, women, and society’s most vulnerable sectors.
• Single individuals who wish to support HIC activities can also adhere by becoming "friends of HIC".

To apply for HIC membership, please complete the following:

1. fill out the application after reading the HIC Constitution and Organisational Structure, and
2. include the following: a copy of your organisation's Constitution and your most recent annual activity report.

For more information please contact HIC General Secretariat at: gs@hic-net.org.

Your request will be considered in the next Board meeting. If accepted you should submit a membership fee. Individuals or organisations wishing to support HIC without membership may also make financial or other contributions.

You can also join HIC mailing list to keep updated and share news on housing, land and human settlements.