Welfare transformation and demographic change in Europe

Challenges for the social housing sector

Brussels, 20 September 2007 | Published in Research

Proceedings of the 2nd CECODHAS Housing Europe Colloquium on "The future of social housing in the EU" Edited by Darinka Czischke

The publication “Welfare transformation and demographic change in Europe: Challenges for the social housing sector” contains the full papers of speakers and discussants who participated to the second colloquium on the future of social housing in the EU, organised by the CECODHAS European Social Housing Observatory and held in Barcelona on the 20th of September 2007.

The colloquium gathered highlevel experts in the field of housing in Europe, both researchers and practitioners, who came together to have an open, critical and rich dialogue on the recent developments on social housing in relation to processes of welfare state transformation and demographic change.

Looking at all these dynamic processes of change in demographics, society, the economy and policy, a number of distinguished scholars from different European countries - such as Giuseppe Roma (Fondazione Censis - Centro studi investimenti sociali), Jesús Leal (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Peter Malpass (University of the West of England), and Sasha Tsenkova (University of Calgary) - were asked to shed light on these developments.