A key social determinant of health worldwide: Housing
Innovative ideas to address the Global housing Crisis
[also including some revealing studies & reports re: south Asia & China]
Photo Credit: Juan Manuel Vasquez
A fifth of China’s urban housing supply lies empty, equivalent to 50 million homes
Soon-to-be-published research shows 22 per cent of China’s urban housing stock is unoccupied, said Professor Gan Li, who runs the nationwide study (2018) |
INNOVATIVE HOUSING APPROACHES IN EUROPE 1. From Finland, the Y-Foundation’s innovative approach to social rental and complete integration of Housing First principles. 2. From France, Livret A: a personal savings account providing funds for social housing on a national level. 3. From Hungary, HomeLab’s initiative to import Social Rental Agencies into Central and Eastern European Countries. 4. From Ireland, Rapid Build Housing: responding to increasing family homelessness by quickly building cheap, quality homes for the housing excluded. 5. From Spain, the Right to Housing Plan of Barcelona: a ten-year plan to solve the city’s housing crisis. 6. From Switzerland, More Than Housing: a massive, innovative cooperative housing initiative, integrating a wide number of actors and participants. 7. From the United Kingdom, Granby Four Streets CLT: a community land trust completely renovating a run-down neighbourhood in Liverpool. 
Some of the most innovative housing projects in the US & Globally have actually gone on right here in Colorado BUT they are FAR FROM SCALE.
The Polis Administration has indicated an interest in exploring the use of Social Impact Bonds to address the housing crisis for Coloradans with Disabilities. Now that the Legislative Session is over, we're hoping to get started on that. |