HSP Knowledge

The new report on social and affordable housing in Thessaloniki is an extended summary of key findings from a “Social housing baseline studies” which was conducted in 2020 with the cooperation of the Major Development Agency of Thessaloniki and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The study provides abetter understanding on the housing sector and the housing needs, possibilities and difficulties, methods, tools, and sources of funding in Thessaloniki and offers a useful

The International Social Housing Festival (ISHF) 2022 took place in Helsinki, Finland on the 14-17th of June. The themes of this year was; Quality of housing as quality of living; Achieving affordability and sustainability in housing and The right to housing: getting rid of the excuses not to guarantee it . The festival gathered the social and affordable housing world, policymakers, city networks, urbanists, architects, and academics among others and offered a broad compilati

During the first part of 2022, the main thematic focus of the Housing Solutions Platform has been to further explore what role architecture can play in tackling homelessness, in light of the New European Bauhaus initiative. This thematic brief contains a summary of the discussion from our two latest debates on the New European Bauhaus from a homelessness perspective and how it can foster architecture for urban inclusion. We highlight some innovative and inclusive architectura