The 2025 Prague Local Workshop, organized by Housing Europe and the Czech Housing Fund, addressed Europe’s affordable and sustainable housing challenges, emphasizing private finance, public-private cooperation, and effective land development strategies.

Key Outcomes:

  1. Efficient Financing: Advocated systemic approaches and clear operating models, highlighting successful practices from Finland, the Netherlands, Austria, France, and Denmark. Equity was stressed as essential for sustainable financing.
  2. Public-Private Trust: Identified mistrust as a major obstacle and emphasized clear communication, stable frameworks, standard contracts, and use of intermediaries to build effective partnerships, drawing from examples like the Netherlands and Ireland.
  3. Land Development: Called for strategic spatial planning, standardized construction agreements, legislative clarity on affordable housing, and incentives such as tax increment financing to facilitate sustainable urban development.
  4. Government Guarantees: Explored government guarantee models like the Dutch Guarantee Fund (WSW) to reduce risk and mobilize private investments. Recommended establishing a national guarantee framework in Czechia based on successful international examples.

Conclusion:
The workshop highlighted the importance of coherent, transparent, and strategic frameworks to drive sustainable and affordable housing solutions.

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