Every month we introduce you to one of the people leading the work of our member organisations. In this edition, we travel to the Hague to meet the new President of Aedes, the Federation of the Dutch Social Housing Associations. Marnix Norder introduces the organisation, gives us information about the perception of housing in the Netherlands, the country with the largest social housing sector in Europe, and shares some thoughts about the current challenges at national and regional level. Plus, as usual, he presents his own way to strike a good life-work balance.

In a year of national elections in many EU member states that also finds the Brexit procedure being formally triggered, housing holds a place on the priority list in the political agenda.

Can a furniture re-use programme transform the lives of people living on housing estates? An EU-funded pilot on five London estates shows that it can. We have asked Groundwork London to share with us the key findings of its 'Repurpose' project.