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29 Feb 24 |

New study on the links between affordable housing and labour markets

New study on the links between affordable housing and labour markets

A new study from Austria shows that high housing costs are not only a burden on household budgets but are increasingly becoming a problem to labour market mobility and economic productivity. Our member, Gerald Koessl who is a researcher at Researcher, the Austrian Federation of Limited-Profit Housing (GBV) is telling us more.

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30 Oct 23 |

Over the poverty line, or how no one should be left behind

Highlights from the annual conference of the Social Platfrom

Over the poverty line, or how no one should be left behind

Minimum income schemes were in the spotlight at Social Platform's annual conference - the organisation advocating for a large array of social rights of which we are a member. Participants stressed that even if not recognised, poverty is a crisis and EU legally binding instruments should be created. Minimum income schemes represent just one of the ways that could end this crisis. This brings up the question how can one access income when they are prevented from accessing affordable housing?

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26 Oct 23 |

Re-energising Europe with energy communities

The messages we are taking home after Housing Europe's project on collective energy is coming to an end

Re-energising Europe with energy communities

Peer-to-peer energy transaction, learning from experiences to develop readiness level framework, boost smart demand and optimisation of energy consumption and peak demand at community level, providing information to consumers through an advisory app, guiding municipalities and small groups - this has been the core work of one of Housing Europe's EU-funded projects NRG2Peers. Nearing the project's end, on October 25, we gathered with similar initiatives in Brussels to learn from one another.

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