This ACHR E-News Bulletin brings you the latest updates, insightful reflections, and powerful voices from community-led housing and development initiatives across Asia, highlighting the transformative work that happened throughout 2025.

With heavy hearts, we bid farewell to our dear friend Muhammad Younus, Director of the Urban Resource Centre, Pakistan. He had been associated with the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights since its very beginning, offering invaluable guidance, insight, and unwavering support.

We remember Younus as a warm, gentle, and deeply committed individual who touched countless lives through his work at the Urban Resource Centre in Pakistan. His calm presence, kindness, and sincere concern for people will be deeply missed. Though he is no longer with us, his contributions and the values he stood for will continue to inspire us.

ACHR would like to extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, loved ones, URC team and all those mourning this great loss.

This special issue of the ACHR newsletter is on urban heat and passive cooling.

This ACHR E-News Bulletin brings you the latest updates, insightful reflections, and powerful voices from community-led housing and development initiatives across Asia, highlighting the transformative work that happened throughout 2024.

ACHR stands in solidarity with earthquake-affected communities in Myanmar and Thailand.