Greater Birmingham and West Midlands – Brussels Office Av. d'Auderghem 22-28 Oudergemselaan, 1040 Brussels Nearest metro / train station: Schuman  

To attend: Please email Darinka Czischke at d.k.czischke@tudelft.nl

(NB: Limited places - registration on a first-come, first-serve basis)  

Book launch invitation Monday, the 3rd of November 2014, 14:00 – 16:30 Greater Birmingham and West Midlands - Brussels Office Av. d'Auderghem 22-28 Oudergemselaan, 1040 Brussels

Housing  and  Communities  Research  Group    

About the author

 

Darinka Czischke is an urban and housing specialist with over 15 years' international experience. She is currently a Guest Researcher at Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands), where she has just completed her PhD. She is also the founder and managing director of DCConsulting, a UK-based consultancy firm that provides research and facilitation services in the fields of integrated sustainable urban development and social enterprise, innovation and co-production in housing. Darinka is a joint-coordinator of the working group "Policy and Research" at the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR). Previously, Darinka was the Research Director of the European Social Housing Observatory at CECODHAS Housing Europe and a Research Associate at the LSE Cities Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science.

 

 

 A debate about policy implications Programme

This book is the result of a 6-year PhD research into the ways in which contextual developments impact on the mission, values and activities of social housing organisations. This event will focus on the policy and practice implications featured in the book, specifically those emerging from findings on the impacts of key regulatory developments on the strategy formulation, role and scope of activities of social housing providers in England and the Netherlands. In England, this will address the impact of the current government's welfare reform and the changes to social housing policy and funding since 2010; in the Netherlands, it will be the impact of the Dutch government's ruling on social housing affecting income limits and the financing of the sector, following the EU decision on state aid to Dutch social housing providers. Both developments have proven to have wide-ranging consequences of on-going importance for the redefinition of the role and scope of social housing providers in two countries with significant social housing sectors in Europe. Evidence on how social housing providers are facing these challenges can bear important lessons for other European countries as well. Key topics to be discussed include: • The impact / use of EC regulations on the

redefinition of the role and scope of social housing in member states

• Social housing providers in North Western European countries in the post recession environment: widening gap in provision, shifting roles and activities of established providers and the emergence of new players.

14:00 Welcome by Chair, Gerard van Bortel, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)

14:15 Introduction, Prof David Mullins, University of Birmingham (UK)

14:30 Book presentation, Dr Darinka Czischke, Delft University of Technology

15:00 Roundtable discussion, chaired by Gerard van Bortel

Panellists:

• Sebastien Garnier, AEDES, The Netherlands

• Laurent Ghekière, Union Sociale pour l’Habitat

• Arno Schmickler, National Housing Federation, England

• Freek Spinnewijn, FEANTSA

• Barbara Steenbergen, International Union of Tenants (IUT)

15:50 Open discussion with participants

16:20 Final remarks

16:30 Coffee and refreshments