Our member in France, the Social Union for Housing (USH), the Banque des Territoires (Caisse des Dépôts group), the European Investment Bank and the Council of Europe Development Bank have established a key partnership that will lay down a foundation for social housing organisations in France to access European funding for long-term investments in affordable homes.

As elDiario mentions, we have assumed housing as one more commodity and we use the city as a commercial object for consumption and tourism, privatizing urban spaces and allowing 700,000 people in Europe to sleep on the street every night!

On July 1st, two HOUSEFUL co-creation workshops took place for the Demo building 4 in Vienna. This workshop was organized by Neues Leben and moderated online by WE&B. Housing Europe participated and was joined by Austrian HOUSEFUL partners. A wide-range representation of various interest groups could be achieved, among them Housing Europe member GBV and other practitioners within the housing sector, from researchers to local architects and financiers. The session aimed at detecting the chances, accelerators and obstacles for circular housing in the Viennese context.