Housing & Social Cohesion
Creating and sustaining mixed income communities - A good practice guide (2006)
Nick Bailey, Anna Haworth, Tony Manzi, Primali Paranagamage and Marion RobertsJoseph Rowntree Foundation, by the Chartered Institute of Housing, University of Westminster
Language: English
Available from: http://www.eukn.org/binaries/eukn/eukn/research/2007/3/mixed-income-communities.pdf
Abstract:
The creation of socially mixed communities has been a policy aspiration sought by many governments of different political persuasions in the UK. While government policy favours the creation of mixed communities in order to increase social cohesion, there is little detailed guidance on what constitututes mix and affordability and how these can be sustained in the longer term. The guide provides clarity on the issue.
Migration, A Journey into Poverty? A Caritas Europa study on poverty and exclusion of immigrants in Europe (2006)
Language: English
Available from: http://www.caritas-europa.org/module/FileLib/Poverty2006ENWeb.pdf
Abstract:
Caritas Europa recent study "Migration, a journey into poverty?" focuses on many aspects of poverty and exclusion of immigrants in Europe. Among the many topics analysed by the study there is the issue of housing for immigrants. Looking at evidence from 12 European countries, the chapter on "Housing: segregation and low quality at high prices" analyses the effects of privatisation in the housing market, legal barriers and discrimination, poor living conditions, living in deprived areas, and homelessness.
Housing Rights and Human Rights (2005)
Dr. Padraic Kenna
Language: English
Available from: http://www.feantsa.org/code/en/livre_detail.asp?pk_id_livre=236
Abstract:
Housing Rights and Human Rights provides a valuable guide to understanding the origins and extent of ceontemporary human rights and housing rights instruments. The promotion and development of housing rights offers a source of inspiration as well as an established corpus of law and standards to counter the 'race to the bottom', where States compete for FDI, low taxation levels and competetive labour markets, by reducing rights. The book examines the development and current status of housing rights, as they are defined, monitored and implemented (or not) in line with various obligations of States. These obligations are derived from the legal instruments of the UN, the CoE and the EU.
Migrants, Minorities and Housing: Exclusion, discrimination and anti-discrimination in 15 member states of the European Union (2005)
Malcolm Harrison, Ian Law and Deborah Phillips, University of Leeds on behalf of the EUMC
Language: English
Available from: http://eumc.eu.int/eumc/index.php
Abstract:
The report shows that in different Member States similar mechanisms of housing disadvantage and discrimination affect migrants and minorities.It also highlights the great variety in available data on migrants, minorities and housing between different Member States, and points out the gaps in data which remain. One theme which merges from this report is that the idea of ‘integration’ can become heavily politicised, and there is a danger that population mixing’ in neighbourhoods can be interpreted by policy-makers as a short-cut through which minorities could be controlled and led to assimilate to a supposedly single, universal mainstream culture and politics. The report can find little solid evidence that could justify seeing involuntary spatial mixing as an appropriate route towards social integration.The evidence reveals a paradox. EU interventions in the form of the recent antidiscrimination Directives are having a positive effect, and Member States are strengthening anti-discrimination legislation, with some introducing special programmes to improve the housing conditions of migrants and minorities. However, the report also documents instances of resistance, hostility and failure by public authorities to address the deprivation and discrimination experienced by migrants and minorities in the housing arena. The report concludes that the area of discrimination and exclusion in housing is still not adequately researched or monitored. Whilst many cases of good practice are reported, much still needs to be done to tackle the discrimination that exists in housing before more inclusive societies in the EU can be attained. As the authors of this report point out, the negative housing outcomes for disadvantaged minorities result from socio-economic and racist exclusion, but at the same time contribute substantially to it.
The Importance of Housing Systems in Safeguarding Social Cohesion in Europe (2004)
Editor: Karl Czasny (SRZ Stadt und Regionforschung GmbH, Germany)
Language: English, German
Available from: http://www.srz-gmbh.com/socoho/report/index.html
Abstract:
A comparative study financed under the EU Fifth Framework Programme. Through a multi-disciplinary approach the project combines a comparative analysis of EU 15 with in depth studies from six Member States examining the relationship between the problems of social cohesion and the housing systems. The six selected countries are: Austria, France, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The reports provide a comprehensive overview of challenges to national housing systems generated by the current crisis of social cohesion as well as of the measures taken to tackle these challenges. Together the reports deliver a large quantity of data covering various aspects of the housing situation in the EU-15, ranging from poverty, social inequality, immigrants or elderly to subsidies, rent policy, urban renewal etc.
Das Wohnmodell inter-ethnische Nachbarschaft (2003)
By Herbert Ludl
Language: German
Available from: http://www.springer.at
Abstract:
300 Menschen aus 18 Nationen unter einem Dach. Kaum ein anderer Ort vereinbart so viele Lebenstile unterschiedlicher Herkunft wie das Wiener "Wohnmodell inter-ethnische Nachbarschaft", genannt auch "der globale Hof". Zwei Jahre nach Bezug wurde dieses experimentelle Wohnbauvorhaben der SOZIALBAU AG einer empirisch-analytischen Evaluierung durch den deutschen Architekten und Sozialwissenschaftler Joachim Brech unterzogen. Die Erfahrungen aus diesem "best practice"-Modell sind dargestellt anhand zahlreicher Tabellen, Interview-Ausschnitte, interpretatiever Resümees. Sie bilden den Kern einer aktualisierten Auseinandersetzung mit dem gesellschaftspolitisch brisanten themenkomplex Stadtplanung, Migration und Integration.
Policy Guidelines on Access to Housing for Vulnerable Categories of Persons (2001)
Group of Specialists on Access to Housing, Directorate of Social Affairs and Health Social Policy Department, Council of Europe
Language: English
Available from: http://www.coe.int/T/E/Social_cohesion/Social_policies/
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Report on Access to Housing for Disadvantaged Categories of Persons,
Iván TOSICS and Sándor ERDŐSI Jr, Metropolitan Research Institute, Budapest (Hungary) with a contribution from Srna MANDIC (Slovenia)
Group of Specialists on Access to Housing, Directorate of Social Affairs and Health Social Policy Department, Council of Europe
Language: English
Available from:
http://www.coe.int/T/E/Social_cohesion/Social_policies/
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Social Housing Management
Asset management in the Social Rented Sector. Policy and Practice in Europe and Australia (2006)
Edited by Vincent Gruis and Nico Niebour
Language: English
Available from: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Abstract: This book fills an important gap in housing research. While recent changes in housing policies and markets pose significant challenges for the development of asset management within the social rented sector, this topic has hardly been covered in international comparative research on housing. The book provides an overview of the state-of-the-art of asset management practice in the social rented sector in various countries. It contains some expiring examples of some practitioners and consultants. It enables housing managers and policymakers to place their approach in a wider perspective. Furthermore, it provides insight into the impact of national housing policy on the operations of social landlords, which can be used in support of housing policy.
Housing Association Diversification in Europe: Profiles, Portfolios and Strategies (2006)
Taco Brandsen, Richard Farnell and Teresa Cardoso Ribeiro
Abstract: The report addresses questions raised by the increasing involvement of social landlords in non-landlord activities (NLA) and particularly regarding their relation to the traditional activities and the organisational framework of social landlords. The aims of the research project are threefold:
- to draw on the experiences from organisations working in different countries and encourage cross-national learning
- to develop a framework that will facilitate the selection of appropriate and realistic portfolios of NLA for individual landlords
- to develop a practical method for embedding NLA within the overall organisation
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