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Next EHF meeting - 18 January 2011
The next EHF Meeting will take place on Tuesday 18 January at the RICS Office, starting with lunch at noon and scheduled to finish at 4pm at the latest. This meeting will be for members only.
2010 Lecture Series
From March till April 2010, the EHF organised a series of 4 lectures on topics related to housing policy in the European Union. The lecture series held as title “Changing lifestyles, changing climate – the role of housing in the EU”. It discussed how demographic and climatic changes affect housing policies and what role the EU should play in order to shape Europe’s housing stock for the future.
The conclusions drawn from the lectures and the discussions with the participants afterwards are represented in a EHF policy paper that was published in October 2010.
International Social Housing Summit 2010
On 13 and 14 October the EHF was present at the International Social Housing Summit in The Hague where it presented its Lecture Series policy paper.
Sander Scheurwater, Head of RICS EU Policy & Public Affairs in Brussels chaired the session which was called 'The role of housing in the EU: The impact of an ageing population, changing lifestyles and poverty'. During the session, Barbara Steenbergen from the International Union of Tenants, Freek Spinnewijn from FEANTSA and Michael Newey, RICS Vice-President and CEO of the Broadland Housing Group, gave a short overview of the content of the lecture series and the policy paper.
The speakers discussed what role the EU should play when it comes to housing affordability for people in risk of poverty, they addressed the topic of population ageing and how only 1% of the European housing stock is adapted to the needs of older people, and discussed the policy implications of social diversity on housing.
