W06 - Social Housing in Europe: Institutional and Organisational Transformations

For the Prague ENHR conference we are proposing three linked themes that focus on the social content and meaning of social and affordable housing models. The first theme focuses on the organisational level and concerns the specification and measurement of social aims and organisational performance to include:

• Social and Community Investment
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Measuring Performance

The second theme is focused on the neighbourhood and community level and concerns the wider role of social housing organisations and their engagement with the neighbourhoods in which they operate to include:

• Modes of engagement with neighbourhoods and communities
• Transforming organisations to deliver effective neighbourhood services
• Accountability to residents and neighbourhoods

The third theme is focused at societal and system level and concerns the European model of social housing to include:

• Social housing for whom and supported by whom?
• The place of social housing in the urban reformation
• Exporting/transforming the “model”: actors, paradigm, ideology

Papers on any of these topics would be most welcome with case study material from any part of Europe (especially Eastern Europe and Southern Europe) or indeed from other parts of the world.
All enquiries about the workshop should be sent to David Mullins or Mary Lee Rhodes or Claire Lévy-Vroelant or Christoph Reinprecht.

Papers to download bellow: