{"id":23532,"date":"2026-10-08T13:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/08\/un-habitat-repairs-800-shelters-kunduz-baghlan-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T13:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:10:17","slug":"un-habitat-repairs-800-shelters-kunduz-baghlan-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/08\/un-habitat-repairs-800-shelters-kunduz-baghlan-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"UN launches repair of 800 shelters in Kunduz and Baghlan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) says it has started work to repair 800 shelters for vulnerable families in Kunduz and Baghlan provinces, with support from the UN Special Trust Fund for Afghanistan (UN STFA).<\/p>\n<p>The agency wrote on X on Thursday, 16 Mizan, that thousands of returning families in Afghanistan are facing a shortage of adequate shelter, and many of them need assistance to make their homes usable.<\/p>\n<p>According to UN-Habitat, despite the launch of this programme, shelter needs remain widespread, and many returning families still require further support to repair or rebuild their homes.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as the return of Afghans from neighbouring countries has increased in recent years, putting greater pressure on facilities and services in the areas where they return.<\/p>\n<p>According to figures from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), about 5.4 million Afghans returned to Afghanistan from Iran and Pakistan between October 2023 and the end of 2025, a figure that has highlighted the need for shelter and basic services in many areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN-Habitat begins repairing 800 shelters for vulnerable returning families in Kunduz and Baghlan, as Afghanistan faces a housing shortage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-secondary-headline","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}