Just a few months after the 2020 US Presidential election, a new day dawned regarding President Joe Biden and the federal government’s stance on affordable and social housing, Joshua Crites from Washington County, Oregon writes for Housing Europe's blog. Josh is an American Social Housing professional. He currently is the Assistant Director for a social housing organization in the Portland, Oregon metro area. He spent time working in and researching affordable housing and social housing in Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Portugal and Estonia.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Estonian Union of Co-operative Housing Associations, better known as EKYL (which is abbreviation from the organization’s name in Estonian language Eesti Korteriühistute Liit). Being still a young organization compared to 100-year-olds housing federations in Western Europe, EKYL nevertheless have a lot of unique experience of building up a country’s largest housing movement from the beginning, and leading it during the decades of transition from turbulent post-soviet times into modern Estonian society, EKYL's Head of International Relations and Projects, Anu Sarnet writes.

The New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative was launched by the European Commission in the framework of its “renovation wave”. The core idea of the original Bauhaus was based on a social approach where art was to serve a social role. In this article, Sorcha Edwards explains how the New European Bauhaus contains real potential based on the success of the inclusive, beautiful and affordable housing developed by the members of Housing Europe.