Print Email Facebook Twitter Urban regeneration in European social housing areas, Chapter 11 Title Urban regeneration in European social housing areas, Chapter 11 Author Droste, C. Lelevrier, C. Wassenberg, F. Faculty OTB Research Institute Date 2008-12-01 Abstract Many European countries have policies to renew cities and neighbourhoods. This paper examines the policies of France, the Netherlands and Germany. In these, as in most Western European countries, the social housing sector forms an important part of regeneration schemes. Social housing is both actor and subject to urban renewal. Housing associations are key actors because they own much of the housing stock, and social rented housing neighbourhoods are the target of the renewal process. Since World War II, urban regeneration processes in Europe can be divided into three major periods. Each period contained policy turning points, which differed according to country and political context. At these turning points policy swung from more physically oriented strategies towards more socially oriented ones or vice versa. This chapter sets out to describe these periods and to demonstrate the strong relationship between urban regeneration and social housing. It describes the challenges posed by the various policy swings for the future supply of affordable housing for the less well-off, differentiation and segregation, quality of life and social cohesion in the social housing stock, and sustainable neighbourhoods. The aims of this chapter are to reveal the differences and similarities among current urban regeneration approaches as they affect the social housing stock of the three countries, to set out trends and future challenges, and to identify questions for future research in this field. Subject urban regenerationurban renewalsocial housingEuropehousing policyurban policy To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:052d1c7f-0f83-4108-839c-b5b784ef2ec6 Publisher LSE, London School of Economics ISBN 9780853283133 Source Social Housing in Europe II: A review of policies and outcomes, Ed. K. Scanlon and C. Whitehead Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type book chapter Rights (c) 2008 Droste, C.; Lelevrier, C.; Wassenberg, F. Files PDF Wassenberg2.pdf 161.54 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:052d1c7f-0f83-4108-839c-b5b784ef2ec6/datastream/OBJ/view