As populations grow and cities become more crowded than ever, public housing has become an increasingly important issue for governments around the world. However, social housing is no longer limited to characterless blocks of concrete. These days, the aim is often to provide low-cost housing to individuals and families who need it – while still affording them the dignity of well-designed and distinctive homes. These modern public housing projects frequently…
World Homelessness Day Last Thursday’s World Homelessness Day passed relatively unnoticed. If we ignore the problems we face, none of us will have the luxury of blindness on the matter this time next year. In each European country homelessness upsweeps with the auterity measures. The winter in view, our blindness will kill people on the street. There’s a lot that governments can do. Create enough shelters in the first place.…
Motion on social housing The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs has adopted on 30 April 2013 a report and an motion on social housing. The importance of this report and motion is that the committee goes byond the problem of social housing in Europe and that they give answers to different problems of housing. Here you find the explanatory statement of the report. A link to the report you…