Social Housing in the 2020s: Delivery and Management Models for a Just City– International Workshop

One-day International Workshop

Housing is increasingly becoming the central struggle for just and inclusive cities. The production and management of housing intersect with policy in other domains, ending up having different impacts on different individuals and social groups depending on intersecting dimensions of identity (gender, race, age, class, sexuality, citizenship, disability, religion, etc.). Therefore, housing plays a central role in how inclusive or exclusive a city is, determining who can live and cannot live in the city and in which conditions. Local and central governments are more and more recognising the importance of their role in the provision and regulation of housing and how their role has broader impacts on rental and property markets. Different governments are putting forward different models for social housing provision and for the regulation of the housing market, models that increasingly involve other actors. There is a strong relation between the production of housing and the production of the city. However, we often see production of housing without a project of the city. Equally interesting is where there is a project of the city without a project of housing, leading to city models characterised by precarity and informality without production of decent housing.

Event Agenda

9:30-12:30: Workshop session: sharing social housing research and future questions

12:30-14:00: Lunch and networking

14:00-15:30: Hybrid workshop session with inputs from:

•  Taibat Lawanson, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Co-Director, Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development
•  Rayan Alaeddine, Public Works, Lebanon
•  Alexandre Apsan Frediani, Principal Researcher, Human Settlements Group, International Institute for Environment and Development
• Stefania Gyftopoulou, Technical Advisor at Municipality of Chalandri, Greece
• Glyn Williams Reader, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield
•  Alan Gilbert, Emeritus Professor, University College London
•  Jaime Royo-Olid, Head of Cooperation, Eu Delegation to Bolivia, PhD Candidate Cambrdige on housing

16:30-18:00: Public Event

Speakers:

• Raquel Rolnik, Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo
• Massimo Bricocoli, Head of the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DASTU), Politecnico di Milano

Moderator:

• Alan Gilbert, Emeritus Professor at University College London

18:00: Drinks

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