Le Mans Metropole Habitat, Social Housing Providers support health employees and provide 11 furnished appartements to welcome additional doctors in the context of COVID 19.

Aware that public health measures can have very negative effects, Paris Habitat has taken the decision to suspend payment of rents for the second quarter of 2020 scheduled for the end of March, for tradespeople, professionals and associations, who are tenants of a commercial or professional premises on their buildings.

During this period of crisis and confinement, Valloire Habitat (Social Housing Provider) is mobilized to inform and keep in touch with their tenants: – A special COVID19 publication has been sent to all residents. – Teams contact the oldest (over 70) by telephone, it is a way of breaking the isolation imposed by confinement. If…

As part of the habiTAT apartment block syndicate, the house project Bikes and Rails creates self-organized affordable living and working space for many generations. In the Sonnwendviertel-Ost, near the Vienna Central Station, the project aims at enabling ecologically, socially and economically sustainable living,  and therein become part of a future-oriented social change. It was awarded…

From hunting to offering and from long-term frustration to instant clarity. The Mitros initiative qlinker ‒ a completely digital association ‒ turns traditional housing association processes upside down to serve tenants in a way that is as customer-friendly as possible. What we are doing is better serving our tenants and doing so in a more…

In autumn 2017, the affordable housing company Botkyrkabyggen started the gender equality project Qvinna in Botkyrka, which provides unemployed women of foreign descent who live in Botkyrkabyggen residences with jobs and language classes. The women clean the entryways and yards of the residential housing blocks. They get training in gender equality, health and fitness, CPR,…

HEART (Holistic Energy and Architectural Retrofit Toolkit) is an EU Horizon 2020 project, involving 16 partners in 10 countries with a geographical focus on Central and Southern Europe. The core of HEART is a cloud-based computing platform that includes decision-making and energy management features. The HEART toolkit thus becomes the heart of a building, regulating…

The Sector Scorecard is an initiative to benchmark housing associations’ performance and check they are providing value for money. It demonstrates the sector’s accountability to its tenants and stakeholders, and includes measurements ranging from financial gearing ratios to customer satisfaction. The initiative started with a well-received pilot exercise and analysis report in 2017, which proved…