The experience of working on the EU-funded Drive 0 project for over two years, shows that it is not enough to just focus on technical innovation if we truly want a circular transformation of the construction sector. To achieve ‘circular ecosystem innovation’, innovations at several levels are needed and those most often are very interdependent.

On 1st February, the Council of Ministers in Spain is expected to approve the preliminary draft law for the Right to Housing which according to our member, AVS brings together a series of measures that are currently included in the housing plans, as well as in other regulatory rules mainly as a consequence of the crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The study of affordability can be a tricky issue, but one thing that is generally accepted is that it is more of a problem in urban areas. In this latest article, our Research Coordinator, Dara Turnbull, suggests that based on the private rental market, very few major cities in Europe can claim to be ‘affordable’, and makes a plea for better data, and improvements in the monitoring of housing as part of the European Semester.