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A lecture by Carlos Moreno

People first – quality of housing as quality of living. Achieving affordability and sustainability in housing.

Can you imagine going into a restaurant where the menu is the same every day? Can you imagine dressing the same all the time, without having a choice? Can you imagine reading books without choosing them? Life wouldn't be much fun, would it? But that is exactly what happens in social housing!

The project organises 105 senior citizens housing into three volumes spread out, on top of a double-height plinth containing a Health Centre and a Senior Community Centre. The building’s common spaces help to create a dynamic community. The mixed-use of the program enable to preserve the existing social network of the neighbourhood.

Recent reforms to the regulation of rented housing in Denmark offer a useful insight into how private investors can exploit tax provision loopholes to undermine affordability, and the measures that can be enacted to combat these.

Community Land Trust Brussels (CLTB) (https://cltb.be/) develops affordable rental and co-ownership housing projects in Brussels for low-income households. 

La Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad organiza un Congreso Internacional de Arquitectura de forma bianual en Pamplona desde 2010.

The Housing Partnership of the Urban Agenda for the EU used an evidence-based and consultative process, enhancing knowledge and promoting action to improve legal and financial conditions for EU cities to invest in new or renovated affordable housing.

International Director Place for People Group. 

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TIF is created through state legislation and local regulation which designates a specific geographic area as a special zone. These are economically distressed geographical areas and the TIF designation incentivizes redevelopment and revitalization.

Corporación que se crea con la misión de generar una mayor, mejor, más diversa y más rápida oferta habitacional asequible para las familias

De Flat is an innovative renovation of one of the biggest apartment buildings in the NL called Kleiburg, a bend slab with 500 apartments, 400 meter long, 10 + 1 stories high. Consortium De FLAT rescued the building from the wracking ball by turning it into a Klusflat meaning that the inhabitants renovate their apartments by themselves.