Scottish social housing providers have a long history of taking a proactive stance on the assessment of affordability for their tenants. Through a bottom-up approach to rent setting and embracing digital platforms, they offer a very interesting example of how we can keep social housing affordable.

Diane Morel is a graphic designer who's behind many of Housing Europe's publications, including all our Yearbooks for many years now. When talking to her about the production of our 2019 Yearbook, she shared her excitement of being part of a co-housing project that is currently being developed in Fay-de-Bretagne, half an hour away from Nantes. We've asked Diane to share with us her personal story of a life transition into co-housing within the CasaNoé residents' cooperative.

The Innovation Challenge Liveable Neighbourhoods 2018-2020 was set up to attain innovative solutions for complex quality of living issues that social housing associations in the Netherlands face. Six teams worked together on these issues for a year through design thinking methodology. All team members came from different work fields, including employees of social housing associations and healthcare facilities, scientist, residents and city council members.