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

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The event encompasses the final discussion between the workshop participants, gathering academics and key actors involved in social housing, including elected officials, civil servants, and housing professionals. 

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. 

Speakers

Raquel Rolnik is a professor, architect and urban planner, with over 35 years of scholarship, activism and  practical experience in planning, urban land policy and housing issues. Based in São Paulo, she is a professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo. Raquel Rolnik was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council as UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing for a six years mandate, ending June 2014. She is author of several books, including “Urban warfare : housing and cities in the age of finance” 

Massimo Bricocoli Is Professor in Urban Planning and Policies and Head of the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DASTU), Politecnico di Milano. Massimo does research in Urban Policies, Housing, Social Policy, Qualitative Social Research and Urban/Rural Sociology. His research focuses on the forms of public action in the government of the territory, the design of urban policies and the reorganization of welfare systems in urban contexts. He studied the forms of frontier public action with reference to: housing policies and projects, urban regeneration, local welfare spaces and services.

Moderator

Alan Gilbert is Emeritus Professor at University College London. His research is concerned with urbanisation and poverty in developing countries and particularly in Latin America and South Africa, including projects on housing subsidies, on secondary housing markets in Colombia and South Africa; on the impact of globalisation on urban life in Latin America, and on rental housing in informal settlements in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He has published extensively and has authored or co-authored nine books, edited four others and written well over one hundred academic articles on these topics.