How a Dutch social housing association is revolutionising home renting
Progress of the Qlinker's case: digitizing for minimal human action
About three years ago, qlinker was presented as the first digital housing association in the Netherlands. With the experience of a hundred years of social housing, but without the restrictions of a hundred years of social housing. Does that mean a story of "freedom, happiness" where you can always choose for the customer and innovation? A conversation with Lead Architect Marcel Vogel about out-of-the-box thinking, digital processes and the letting of the first 136 homes.
Developing Positive Energy Districts in Europe: National Strengths and Weaknesses
How could PEDs/ZEDs be developed? Read the webinar report and watch the recording
Four Housing Europe members representing national housing federations in the EU-funded project syn.ikia demonstration countries gathered to identify opportunities and bottlenecks to the implementation of Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) and Zero Energy Districts (ZEDs) in existing legislation and policy across Europe. Could PEDs/ZEDs be developed in your country for more affordable and liveable neighbourhoods?
Investigating EU financial instruments to tackle energy poverty in households: A SWOT analysis
Housing Europe's Policy Officer, Edit Lakatos delves into a comparative analysis
Why is it difficult to mobilise and fully exploit the available financial tools in the combat against energy poverty and what are the challenges for social housing providers? Our policy officer, Edit Lakatos and Apostolos Arsenopoulos, a researcher in the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) provide an overview of the existing financial instruments
and successful schemes focused on facilitating the implementation of
energy efficiency-related measures, in the context of addressing the problem of energy poverty, along with its adverse socio-economic effects.
