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The EU at the housing crossroads
Why Brussels has a key role to play in addressing Europe’s housing crisis
Seeing a debate entitled ‘Housing: Urgent action needed to address homelessness in Europe’ on the agenda of the first European Parliament session for 2020 would have been a major surprise some years ago. However, today it seems as the necessary thing to do, a debate we cannot avoid having anymore.
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Finance for sustainable activities. A Housing Europe Guide (*)
Housing Europe offers to its members a range of tools to allow them to seize the opportunities given by the EU legislation in the field of finance for sustainable activities.
Log in on our website to find out more
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The European Commission unveils how they plan/hope to fund the EU Green Deal
And what about the link with social policies?
After adopting in December 2019 an overarching strategy to make the EU the first carbon-neutral continent by 2050, the European Commission has now unveiled parts of its plan to finance this ambition.
Read our analysis
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Kick start of the 2020 European Semester
Worrying signs of persistent housing divide
The European Commission has launched the 2020 European Semester by providing a series of analyses about the state of the European economy and macroeconomic imbalances in the EU member states. As far as housing is concerned, it is the third year in a row that the same global picture is laid.
Read more
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EIB lends EUR 240 million to Gewobag
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing the state-owned housing company Gewobag, a GdW member, with a 240-million-euro loan, which is earmarked for the construction of 2,000 new residential units by 2023. This cooperation aims at supportiung affordable housing supply in Berlin.
Read more on the EIB website
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CEB supports social housing in the City of Leipzig
The Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) will support with a EUR 58 million loan the increase in the offer of both affordable and social housing in the city of Leipzig, through the construction, renovation and modernisation of rental housing for low-income persons and the construction of day nurseries.
Read more on the CEB website
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Housing Europe Secretariat welcomes Eva and Clara
Our team in Brussels has recently welcomed two new members! We are happy to introduce to you Clara Mafé and Eva Sporer.
Clara has joined the project and innovation team and you will soon be hearing about our new projects from her.
Eva has joined the team as an intern for 6 months and after specialising in urban studies will be available to feed your examples to the housingevolutions.eu, while supporting our work on Communication and Research.
Find out more on the 'Brussels Team' section on our website
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The OECD Affordable Housing Database gets updated
The OECD Affordable Housing Database has been recently updated and we invite you to have a look at this tool that helps countries monitor access to good-quality affordable housing and strengthen the knowledge base for policy evaluation. It brings together cross-national information from OECD countries, Key Partners and EU member states. The database groups indicators along three dimensions: housing market, housing conditions and affordability, and public policies towards affordable housing.
Find out more
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BBC 'Real Story' on affordable housing
The BBC World Service Radio show 'Real Story' looked at the world's housing crisis in one of its latest episodes. Paul Henley and a panel of expert guests discuss the big challenges facing local authorities and city dwellers around the world.
Listen to the podcast here
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Syn.ikia kicks off
As you will be opening this newsletter, the partners of the consortium will be having the Kick-off meeting for the Horizon 2020 'Syn.ikia' project in Trondheim, Norway. Syn.ikia aims at achieving sustainable plus energy neighbourhoods with more than 100% energy savings, 90% renewable energy generation triggered 100% GHG emission reduction, and 10% life cycle costs reduction, compared to nZEB levels. This will be achieved while ensuring high-quality indoor environment and well-being. The main strategy for achieving these goals is to deliver a blueprint for sustainable plus energy buildings and neighbourhoods, leading the way to plus energy districts and cities.
Syn.ikia will be our flagship project for the years to come and we will soon be able to share much more information and material about it.
In the meantime, you may check the relevant page on our website
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Equipping building professionals with new skills to achieve European energy targets
The BUILD UP Skills Initiative gets further updates based on the findings of EU-funded projects that have designed and implemented impressive upskilling programmes, including PROF-TRAC (Housing Europe was part of the consortium).
We encourage you to visit this valuable database
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Housing Europe contributes to the INHERIT final conference
Housing Europe Deputy Secretary General, Julien Dijol was a speaker at the INHERIT final conference that took place on December 10th 2019. Over 150 stakeholders joined the event entitled “A Future for All to INHERIT: Taking Action Now”. Julien contributed to a session that looked at ways for ensuring healthy and energy efficient housing for all, suggesting ways how to replicate energy-ef-ficient social housing.
Read the full report here
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Housing Europe Working Committee Meetings (*)
Brussels, 4-5 March 2020
Housing Europe members and partners gather twice a year in Brussels for the Working Committee meetings that are usually combined with other events and the networking dinner. The draft agenda for the upcoming March meetings is now available.
Log in on our website to find it. Please also make sure that you register should you wish to attend.
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European Energy Poverty Observatory Event
Save the date for the next European Energy Poverty Workshop. The event is co-organised by Housing Europe and the European Policy Centre and will be held on March 3rd, 14:30-17:00 on the European Policy Centre (EPC) premises, Rue du Trône 14, 1000.
More information along with the registration link will be available soon.
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