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  • Community-led housing – a key ingredient of urban housing policy

    An article written by URBACT's experts Laura Colini and Levente Polyak

    Levente Polyak

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  • Cities implementing the right to housing

    The EU Cities Forum 2020, held in Porto, provided the perfect time and location to launch a new URBACT and UIA (Urban Innovative Actions) joint initiative on implementing the right to housing across urban areas in Europe.

    Laura Colini

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  • Fighting homelessness: the role of cities

    Laura Colini, URBACT programme expert gives an overview of the URBACT City Lab for Cities Fighting Homelessness, which was done in collaboration with FEANTSA and the Mairie de Paris.

     

    Laura Colini

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  • The housing paradox: what can local municipalities do?

    The negative consequences of the financialisation of housing can be felt first and foremost on a local level, in the urban housing markets. Thus the crucial questions are: what are local municipalities doing? Or to what extent can the growing problem of affordable housing be handled on a local level?

    Ivan Tosics

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  • Housing at the URBACT City Festival 2018: from the EU Urban Agenda to Lisbon (PT)

    Affordable and adequate housing is one of the theme Lab sessions at URBACT City Festival taking place in Lisbon, 13-14 September 2018. This text serves the purpose of introducing to the housing debates in Lisbon, linking them to the work of the EU urban agenda (EU UA) on affordable housing.

     

    Laura Colini

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