housing – SOLIDUS. Solidarity in European Societies

Solidarity in the housing sector was analyzed at the Budapest European Seminar

On May 30th 2017, it took place the second European Seminar on Solidarity in the Housing Sector at the Central European University (CEU) of Budapest (Hungary). The aim of the seminar was, on the one hand, to present the state of the art and present challenges in the policy area of housing in the European context and, on the other hand, to make visible the contributions developed by different solidarity actions in Europe, which are working for affordable housing access to the most vulnerable collectives. Introduced by Andrew Cartwright [...]

Solidarity in the Housing Sector, Budapest European Seminar

Access to affordable housing remains an enduring question in Europe. Long exacerbated by the credit and debt crisis and kept in the spotlight by migration and population crowding, responses at the civic and the policy level in Europe offer instructive examples of both administrative creativity and social innovation. The aim of this seminar is to consider the lessons that can be taken from some of these solutions in two separate fields securing and retaining affordable accommodation. Participants have been invited from a range of academic, practitioner and government level with [...]