We need to move to a life-cycle approach to assessing the cost of building and renovation
The highlights from Housing Europe's Renovation Summit
The small (but increasing) number of state-of-the-art circular public and social housing projects now prove that the is significant potential for cost savings for housing providers by moving from a ‘linear’ to a ‘circular’ model. Renovations are an opportunity to go the extra mile and upgrade resource use and management. Undoubtedly, besides shifting its perspective, the housing world needs to think about the cost behind the green transformation, especially when the raison d’être of public, cooperative and social housing providers is to offer homes that are good for the pocket and for the environment
The fundamental 'building blocks' of good housing governance
Podcast with with Dr Julie Lawson, #Housing2030 Lead Writer and Honorary Associate Professor at RMIT University
Welcome to ‘Making a house a home’ - the podcast of Housing Europe, the European federation of public, cooperative and social housing providers. You are listening to the 7th episode of Housing 2030 - the joint international initiative of housing experts from over 56 governments through UNECE and UN-Habitat and 43,000 affordable housing providers represented by Housing Europe. I am Diana Yordanova and I hope you will dive into the ‘new season’ of our Housing 2030 mini-series which will be looking at governance.
Peer-to-peer learning on European non-for-profit housing models
An exchange of opportunities & challenges between the Housing Europe network
Diversity is the main characteristic that defines social housing policy in Europe. For this reason, the Spanish Social Housing Association (AVS), in collaboration with Housing Europe organised a webinar with the objective of showing social housing management models in three European countries: Austria, France and Wales.
