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Rent subsidies for homeless people in Hungary

As a result, some municipalities have introduced limited rent assistance programmes.

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Housing Construction Savings Bank of Kazakhstan

The Housing Construction Savings Bank (HCSB), founded in 2003, is modelled on the German bausparen system of contractual savings for housing. It is the only Kazakhstani bank which employs this model to fund mortgage lending.

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Renovation coaches

In several countries, “renovation coaches” have been introduced to guide building owners, for example, on cost-efficient renovation procedures[1].

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Horizonti Microcredit Foundation in North Macedonia 

Horizonti is a specialist microfinance provider in North Macedonia. It was founded in 2000, currently has eight branch offices around the country and provides microfinance for agriculture, business and housing.

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Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations – Turning household savings into social housing

CDC centralizes government-backed savings accounts called ‘Livret A’ and makes a proportion of these available to fund loans for social housing provision.  Livret A savings accounts are available in all French banks; they are popular because they offer an attractive interest rate, tax-free, and state guaranteed.  There are around 50 million such accounts in France, with a current deposit cap of EUR 22,950. At the end of 2020, French households had EUR 411 billion in savings in CDC-managed savings accounts. 

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Representation of German tenants and insurance company providing legal protection

In Germany, private renters can join a tenants’ association, called a Mieterbund or Mietervereine. These represent tenants’ interests and offer members advice on tenancy contracts, utility costs and tenancy laws.

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Affordable Housing Bonus Program, density bonus schemes in California

In a density bonus scheme, a developer is permitted to build a larger project on a site than would otherwise be permitted, in exchange for including specific elements such as a certain percentage of affordable housing units. In some cases, a developer can contribute land or funds for creating off-site affordable housing. 

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Allowances for low-income households – Lithuania, Slovakia, France, the Netherlands

Several programmes have been successfully launched to provide financial support to low-income people to compensate for renovation and energy costs. The “Habiter Mieux” (Better Living) programme was created in France in 2010.

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Capacity-building in professional housing management in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan 

Efficient and qualified housing administration is a prerequisite for the modernization of the rapidly deteriorating housing stock in Central Asia.

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Mietspiegel rent regulation system in Germany 

Germany is well known for its large rental sector which typically offers secure tenancies and protection from eviction, making renting an attractive alternative to home purchase.

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Points system for rent setting in The Netherlands

The Dutch government applies a points-based system[1] to assess housing quality and determine the maximum price for renting it.

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Limited Profit Cooperatives in Switzerland

Renting is the dominant tenure in Switzerland (65 per cent), largely provided by individual private landlords and institutional landlords. There is a small diverse social housing sector comprising 1,700 non-profit organizations, primarily small cooperatives and social housing foundations, associations and municipal housing companies. Together these provide about 14 per cent of total rental housing stock, mostly as flats and row housing in urban areas.

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Wohnfonds Wien – a land bank for the public good

The Vienna Land Procurement and Urban Renewal Fund (in German: Wiener Bodenbereitstellungs- und Stadterneuerungsfonds), known as Wohnfonds Wien, was founded in 1984 by the city-government. It is a not-for-profit, financially independent corporation, governed by a trust chaired by the city council and regulated under the Fund Act. 

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Klimaatakkord – Dutch national climate agreement

An example of a soft regulation is the Dutch National Climate Agreement – “Klimaatakkoord”.

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National Agency for the Inspection of Social Housing (ANCOLS) – France

All French social landlords are governed by strict rent and allocation regulations. Their capital investments are also tightly regulated, and they are subject to a housing construction code and inspection regime specifically concerning construction and management of housing for low-income households.

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85 Social Housing Units in Cornellà

85 dwellings, 543 spaces and 2172 corners For the 10,000 m2 of built surface area of the new building in Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona), consisting of 85 social housing units laid out on five levels, a total of 8,300 m2 of zero kilometre timber from the Basque Country has been used.

Diseño urbano
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LIFE REUSING POSIDONIA/ 14 social dwellings in Sant Ferran, Formentera

Life Reusing Posidonia is a Climate Change Adaptation Project financed by the European LIFE + program for nature conservation projects.

Sostenibilidad medioambiental
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Residential and studio building at the former Berlin flower market

Owner-occupied artists’ workshops and apartments, cooperative housing and studios, space provision for social associations and commerce were part of the programme, which would establish a new building group and hence lay the foundation for the residential and studio building at the former Berlin flower market.

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Performative Brise- Soleil

Translating constraints into spatial abundancy: Vertical free space for subsidized housing The architectural invention of the Performative Brise-Soleil turns an “impossible” housing location into exciting spatial opportunities, undermining the scarce realm of subsidized housing with abundant free spaces.

Diseño urbano
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Equity investment in new social housing – Austrian providers generating their own investment capital

Well-managed social housing providers can accumulate their own equity to invest in further social housing provision. 

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Helene Chartier – Reinventando las ciudades

Jefa del Programa de Desarrollo de Carbono Cero de C40 y responsable del concurso mundial  

Diseño urbano
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Madrid Nuevo Norte

Madrid Nuevo Norte es el proyecto de regeneración urbana que transformará Madrid. Está basado en un modelo urbano denso, compacto y mixto, estructurado a partir del transporte público, la movilidad peatonal, la participación ciudadana y el impulso sostenible a la economía. 

Diseño urbano
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Viena Wohnfonds: Nicole Büch y Silvia Hofer, Wohnfonds

Comunicaciones corporativas y Hauskunft - wohnfonds_wien

Promoción y producción
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Housing Finance Agency of Ireland – Dublin, Ireland

The Housing Finance Agency (HFA) was established in 1982 and is a public limited company wholly owned by the Irish government. 

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Gaetan Siew – Mauricio

Enviado especial de la República de Mauricio. Comité de Representantes Permanentes de ONU-Hábitat

Propiedad y tenencia
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Corneille Koppelaar – Reino Unido​

Director Internacional del Grupo Places for People.

Propiedad y tenencia
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Occidentului 40

A house that moves vertically.

Diseño urbano
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59 Dwellings, Neppert Gardens Social Housing

The project is located in Mulhouse in a popular district close to the city center, currently under renovation. It includes 59 social rental dwellings developed by SOMCO, operator on public social housing. A few years after the Cité Manifeste experience, our common goal was to pursue the same aims: generous dwellings without increasing the rent.

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Urban Spaces 1 / Dogarilor Apartment Building

The project is located in Mulhouse in a popular district close to the city center, currently under renovation. It includes 59 social rental dwellings developed by SOMCO, operator on public social housing. A few years after the Cité Manifeste experience, our common goal was to pursue the same aims: generous dwellings without increasing the rent.

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R50 Cohousing

R50 - cohousing is a joint building venture project in Berlin-Kreuzberg. It was initiated by the architects during the course of a concept-based award procedure for building plots and implemented in close cooperation with the clients. The building proposal is founded on a clear urban design position, robust and precisely detailed architectural design, and both a collective and individual process of occupancy.

Diseño urbano