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Families, inclusion and housing : A European perspective
Dr. Özgür Öner, Vice-President of CECODHAS Housing Europe
Expert Meeting, 30 August 2013 (Berlin)
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What is CECODHAS - Housing Europe?
CECODHAS - Housing Europe is the
federation of cooperative, public,
social housing
… a network of national and regional
housing federations of housing
organisations.
Together the 43 members in 18
European members States manage 25
million dwellings which represent
12% of the total housing stock in the
EU.
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A short overlook to housing situation in EU countries
Specially impacts of the crisis
Some common trends in EU
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Unaffordability for the most vulnerable but also for middle-low income families
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Lack of supply
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Changes in housing benefit: putting affordability even further
Future challenges to answer by adequate housing solutions:
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Climate change and the need to reduce carbon foot-print from the housing sector
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Ageing population and the adequate housing for elderly to live in their home
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2 great challenges for families in the affordable housing
sector :
- growing poverty
- ageing
The EU holds part of the solution:
- Cohesion Policy
- Research and Development
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Housing conditions are already critical in some parts of the
EU …
% of the population affected by at least 1
housing deprivation factor, 2007, Eurostat
90
80
70
Note: housing
deprivation factors are:
damp walls, leaking
roof or rot in windows;
no bath or shower in
the dwelling; no indoor
flushing toilet for the
sole use of the
household; dwelling too
dark.
Source: EUROSTAT; EUSILC 2007.
60
poor
50
non-poor
40
total
30
20
10
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LT
PL
LV
RO
PT
CY
EE
BG
IT
ES
SL
HU
NL
UK
EL
IE
FR
BE
AT
DE
LU
CZ
F
SEI
DK
M
T
SK
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And social housing residents are getting poorer….
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20 years of demand side policies: Impact of housing costs
 Housing costs = 22.5% disposable income (41% at risk of poverty)
 Housing overburden = 10.1% (37% at risk of poverty)
 Housing-related expenditure = 22.9 % of total household consumption
expenditure
 A third of European households facing disproportionate housing costs,
and perception of worsening affordability
70.0
60.0
50.0
41.0
40.0
30.0
22.5
20.0
10.0
0.0
for total population
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for population at risk of poverty
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Development of ageing structure until 2060 (Germany)
according to the 12th coordinated population forecast
Index values for chosen age classes, 2009=100
280
Index 2009=100
260
Popultation of age
… until less than …
years
2050
240
220
80+
200
(Increasing until 2050)
65 - 80
180
(Increasing until 2033)
160
50 - 65
140
(Increasing until 2020)
2033
2020
120
20 - 30
(Decreasing)
100
less than 20
80
(Decreasing)
60
30 - 50
(Decreasing)
40
2009
2014
2019
2024
2029
2034
2039
2044
Quelle: StatistischesEUROPE
Bundesamt, 12. koordinierte Bevölkerungsvorausberechnung;
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Variante 1-W1 Untergrenze mittlere Bevölkerung
2049
2054
2059
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The silent revolution
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the end of the three ages of life : following youth and adulthood, we see the
development of new ages, new individual and family times, which signal the
end of the traditional equation according to which old age = retirement =
illness, infirmity and dependence. In today’s world, the 20 or 30 years of life
that come after retirement cover at least three stages of old age: those aged
from 65-75, the young and still active pensioners; those aged from 75-85, the
age when a whole series of small infirmities begin to appear, although these
people are still relatively autonomous; and finally the over 85s who are
beginning to have to face up to dependency related issues
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It is only possible to grow old “comfortably” if the housing policy is
coordinated with other policies in order to ensure both a degree of fluidity
between the three spaces of life – the public space, the collective space and
the private space (home) – and also a form of solidarity and cohesion
through networks of community based services
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The Cohesion Policy (Structural Funds) 2014-2020
For instance, in Germany the investment volume needed to adapt
dwellings is of approximately 39 billion Euros. This investment is needed
for measures to adapt the 2.5 million dwellings where elderly persons
with mobility limitation are living (50% need structural changes inside,
50% accessibility improvement)
Public finance is needed
Structural Funds could and should invest in the adaptation of our living
spaces to the demographic evolution and changing ways of living (ERDF
used as grants and loans)
Possibility : combining ageing adaptation and energy efficiency measures
(see example in France with clear socio-economic benefits)
Key role of local level (new instruments: Community Led Local
Development and Integrated Territorial Investments)
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Research and Development – Horizon 2020
 The search for win-win solutions: there is an agreement among
academics and practitioners that in most cases preventing measures
(such as housing-led approaches for the most vulnerable ) are less
expensive in terms of public health expenditure than treatment of a
situation that has already occurred (such as stays in hospitals because
of a lack of adaptation of the dwellings) (for instance: housing for
former homeless and/or people with drug addiction problem in
Notthingham)
 The new EU research programme (Horizon 2020) can help explore
solutions for families in need of greater social inclusion. Not only focus
on innovation in personalised medicine, care systems and products
without the necessary recognition of the contribution of labourintensive solutions such as small repair of homes
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www.housingeurope.eu
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