Since forming Wheatley Group seven years ago, we’ve worked hard to instil change into every aspect of our thinking and planning. To anticipate the curve and be flexible, agile and ready to adapt, to keep pace with where our markets and government policy are heading, to anticipate what customers expect and need.

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.