Housing Fair Finance
As part of a one-year learning activity, URBACT and UIA organised a third and final web conference on Thursday 19 November (10am-12pm CET) on the topic of housing fair finance.
Today, more European cities and social movements are calling governments at all levels to take responsibility for reaffirming housing as a right and not as a commodity. They are showing the way by trying out concrete actions to implement the right to housing.
This web conference #3 was dedicated to the topic of fair finance. More specifically, we will ask what role, responsibilities and levers of action cities have in relation to the financialisation of their housing market.
The outcomes of this webinar will build directly on the European Urban Agenda Partnership on affordable housing work, and will explore a set of actions and recommendations in terms of better knowledge among cities, also aiming at pushing the agenda on the right to housing EU wide.
Moderated by: Laura Colini, UIA/URBACT expert & Iván Tosics, URBACT expert
The recording of the web conference is available on our YouTube channel here.
You can download the slides here.
The follow up article is available here.
Intro | ||
10.00 – 10.05 | Introduction to the topic and the scope of the conference | Laura Colini |
Part 1. City examples | ||
10.05 – 10.15 | UIA Yes We Rent ! Mataró (Spain) Leveraging vacante private property to build up cooperative affordable housing scheme | |
10.15 – 10.25 | URBACT ALT/BAU network, Riga (Latvia) Tax fines for leaving buildings empty or in a derelict state, presentation by Villiams Vrobļevskis | |
10.25 – 10.40 | Q&A to city representatives | |
| 10.40 – 10.50 | BREAK | |
Part 2. Debate | ||
10.50 – 11.35 | Debate moderated by Laura Colini and Ivan Tosics with:
Q&A part 1 | |
11.35 – 12.15 |
Q&A part 2 | |
Part 4. Conclusions | ||