This time, we dive into the circular world. The circular economy is all  over the place in the Brussels policy scene since the European  Commission presented the Circular Economy Package in early 2018. But  what do we actually mean with the term ‘circular economy’? What is the  potential of the housing sector in delivering an eco-friendy future for  our cities?  We address these key questions with 2 excellent guests. TU  Delft Assistant Professor of Housing Management, Gerard Van Bortel...

In this episode we reach out to you from  Vienna and the venue of the international conference entitled ‘Housing  for All’. We used the visit of our delegation to the Austrian capital  for this event to hold two interviews that shed light to affordable  housing from different starting points. In the first part of our show, we meet the UN  Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Leilani Farha, a leading voice  in raising awareness on a number of key challenges for affordable  housing- first...

Cities are the focus point of the second  episode of 'Making a house a home'. As we are becoming increasingly “an  urban species” according to the writer and journalist, Doug Saunders  what is the role of affordable housing in the urbanized environment?  What are the dynamics of the relationship between public, cooperative  and social housing providers and the local authorities at European and  at global level? We discuss all that with Agata Krause, Policy  Advisor on Housing and Social...

We are back after quite a while indeed- sorry  for the gap. We hope you missed us, we certainly did. And here we are,  reaching out to you again from Brussels with an episode dedicated to an  issue everyone in Europe has been talking about over the last years.  Migration. The refugee crisis, the action plan, the integration process…  These are just a few of the keywords that have been coming up again and  again in the news. We will try to make the link with the place that is  the key for the...

In the fourth episode of 'Making a house a  home' we turn our spotlight to funding. How can public, cooperative and  social housing providers get support for innovative projects from the  European Union? What are the options available? What are the keys for a  successful application and which topics are on the priority list at the  moment? We will try to put together all the pieces of this puzzle along  with the Policy Officer of Housing Europe, Edit Lakatos who has been monitoring closely...

In the first episode, we discuss with the President and the Research  Coordinator of Housing  Europe the current State of Housing in the EU  but also what is happening in France where the proposed reform of the  social housing sector has triggered a lot of political tension.