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The New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative was recently launched by the European Commission in the framework of its Renovation Wave. It is proposed as an incubator for innovation and creativity aiming to drive sustainable design across Europe and beyond. The historical Bauhaus was founded by Walter Gropius in 1919 in Weimar and aimed to bring together architecture, art, and design. The core idea of the original Bauhaus was based on a social approach where art was to serve a so

On 20 April 2021, HSP organised a meeting between the European Commission and several NGOs, civil society organisations, and the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) to discuss the Affordable Housing Initiative (AHI) announced by the European Commission as a cornerstone of its renovation wave strategy. The Affordable Housing Initiative aims at revitalising 100 neighbourhoods as lighthouse projects across the EU in the coming years while ensuring that renovated units remai

In France, in 1997, the Ministry for housing and social action launched a program to give people who, often having lived on the streets or in shelters or coming out of prison, are at the margins of society and have complex needs. The "family pension” (pension famille) model provides permanent, small-scale accommodation, with a number of units varying between 15 and 25. The model combines independent studio flats for single people with common spaces as a shared kitchen and liv