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CONTENTS OF INTEREST
FOR SOCIAL HOUSING |
SITUATION TIME TABLE |
ACTIONS TAKEN OR PLANNED |
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Ageing
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> Communication prepares a Communication with a chapter on housing |
> Creation of a CECODHAS subworking group on ageing. Preparation of position on the future Communication |
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Strategy for social inclusion
Communication on active inclusion
Quality of social services
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> The first Strategy on social inclusion contained as objective the access to decent and affordable housing
> Transnational programme to exchange experience on social inclusion
> One key pillar of the strategy is access to high quality social services, among them social housing
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>Strategy has been withdraw as independent process and incorporated into reform plans with limited objectives , access to services being the overreaching one including housing
> Social partners and other stakeholders can send teir comments about the strategy until February 28th 2008
> European Commission will issue a Communication on principles guiding the quality of social services of general interest
> Member States (through the Social Protection Committee) are to focus their work on that question too.
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> Joint report on social inclusion 2006 published, acknowledge the lack of data on housing
> CECODHAS participation in the annual round-table to fight poverty, see CECODHAS contribution
> Follow up of the National Action Plans on Inclusion
> CECODHAS will answer to the consultation process
> CECODHAS will develop a position
> answer to the call for proposal on quality of services under PROGRESS (close 18/07/2008)
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Future of European social model
Consultation on the Social Reality of the EU
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> Social housing key component of the European social model, should be clarified in the discussion around the necessity to reform
> The paper insists on the impact of globalisation and demographic change and the impact on labour market, life course patterns, welfare
> The consultation around the paper should contribute to the reflection on the future Social Agenda
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> Since UK Presidency initiative in Nov 2005, several summits on European Social summit have and will take place (financing, flexsecurity, modernisation…)
> A stakeholders consultation is open until the end of the year 2007
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> CECODHAS contribution to the debate
> Second colloquium of the Observatory on Welfare Transformation and Demographic change (september 2007, Barcelona)
> Contribution of CECODHAS, november 2007
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Lisbon Strategy
Employment strategy and mobility
Sustainable development strategy
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> Broad economic guidelines speking about housing market as an obstacle to growth
> Adopted Employment Guidelines 2005-2008 (adopted on 12/07/2005)
> In 2006 to link better social, environmental and economical objectives in EU policies
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> Links between housing and mobility and economic growth has been done by the round-table organised in March 2006 at the European Parliament
> Report of DG ECON, Commission, on housing market in March 2006
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> CECODHAS analysis of reform plans for Spring Council (March 2006)
> Round-table at the European Parliament (march 2006)Participation in a “social” coalition to keep the social pillar of the Lisbon strategy
> CECODHAS Observatory first colloquium of the economic dimension in the future of social housing (see report in the Observatory website) |
Integration of migrants
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> Joint programme INTI of DG EMP and DG JHA, promoting the integration of people who are not citizens of the UE and the dialogue with civil society Preparation of Integration of Migrants guidelines, Sept 2006 |
> First annual conference on integrating cities in Rotterdam, Oct 2006
> Second annual conference on integrating cities in Milano, Nov 2007
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> Commission will produce guidelines of integration via housing at the end of 2006.CECODHAS contributes with case-studies (CECODHAS observatory)
> Second Edition of Handbook on Integration dedicates a chapter on housing (september 2007)
> CECODHAS observer in the CLIP network (local authorities for integration leaded by Stuttgart)
> CECODHAS will be represented in the INTEGRATING CITIES conference in Milan (november 2007)
> CECODHAS Observatory publishes a report on social housing and integration of migrants (october 2007)
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| Antidiscrimination |
> Directive Anti-Discrimination 2000/43: protection against ethnic discrimination in social protection, access to goods and services, employment
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> Revision in 2008
> Report of MS on the implementation of the Directive 2000/43
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>Questionnaire to CECODHAS members- Development of a position on the question of anti-disctrimination
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