Making Rental Housing Affordable: International Perspectives
Upcoming webinars
Here’s the full details for the series of lunchtime webinars I’m organising with Sarah Sheridan. We’ll be joined by international experts to discuss key issues such as how Austria and Denmark ensure affordability in their cost rental sectors, and how Germany and Spain regulate rents (including a deep dive on Germany’s ‘reference rent’ system. The first webinar will happen on 19 March at 1pm with Darren Baxter-Clow on housing acquisition schemes in the UK and the lessons for Ireland’s ‘tenant in situ’ schemes. Full details on our first webinar below, followed by dates and links to register for the others.
Can bringing private homes into social ownership rewire the housing system?
Our homes should be the foundations for our lives. However, all too prevalent are forms of renting that are high cost, insecure and poor quality, and which therefore hinder our economic security, health and well-being. It is in this context that socialisation, where councils and housing associations buy already existing homes and convert them to social housing, has become a growing part of the housing debate in recent years. This webinar will discuss research from JRF examining – in a UK context – how acquisition can be part of solving the housing crisis, and the challenges and issues which policymakers must overcome if it is to be successfully deployed.
We are also delighted to welcome Jim Baneham, Director of Delivery & Innovation, Housing Agency, who will act as respondent and will offer an overview of similar programmes in Ireland, including Cost Rental Tenant In-situ.
You can sign up for this talk here.
Dr Darren Baxter-Clow is a Principal Policy Advisor at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, leading the organisations policy work on housing, land and climate. Prior to joining JRF, Darren worked on housing, UK poverty and environmental policy at a leading progressive think-tank. Darren has also worked in academic research and holds a PhD from the University of York.
The subsequent webinars are:
Wed 16 April (1-2pm): Dr Gerald Koessl (Austria)- Cost Rental Housing in Austria: How does it Work and What is the Impact on the Housing Market
Wed 21 May (1-2pm): Solveig Raberg Tingley (Denmark) - Non-Profit and Affordable Housing: The Danish Experience
Wed 11 June (1-2pm): Dr Eduardo González de Molina (Spain) - Rent Regulation in Spain
Wed 25 June (1-2pm): Prof Stefan Kofner (Germany) - Critical Analysis of the German Local Reference Rent System: Challenges and Perspectives
This webinar series is organised by Dr Michael Byrne (UCD) with the support of Dr Sarah Sheridan (Independent Researcher). We would like to acknowledge the Housing Agency for their contribution to this webinar series and also UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy and Equality Studies (UCD).