Post by Centre for a Smart Future

The polycrisis is continuing to impact on Colombo's working class poor. Colombo Urban Lab’s latest policy brief examines the protracted and often invisible impacts of overlapping crises, and how they have increased vulnerability to new shocks such as natural disasters and the global energy crisis. These findings are based on ongoing qualitative research with communities in Colombo, alongside a household survey conducted in January 2026 across four settlements. https://lnkd.in/gzVhqstb