Using the owner occupied home as a pension: attitudes towards housing equity release in 6 European countries

The ageing of European societies and increasing pressure on collective pension arrangements has sparked interest in alternative, more individualised forms of pension provision. Home ownership is regarded as one of these alternatives. Home owners can release housing equity by moving to a smaller owner occupied dwelling or a rental dwelling....

Social innovation and social economy: A new framework in the Spanish housing context

The main purpose of this paper is to offer a new theoretical framework to the Spanish housing studies. This article combines different traditions and different frameworks (social innovation, social economy), in order to position the crisis of evictions in Spain and the emergence of housing co-operatives in a new theoretical context. In the first...

Particulier opdrachtgeverschap bij de buren.

Het individueel Particulier Opdrachtgeverschap in het buitenland is vaak een belangrijke pijler in de woningbouwcultuur. De collectieve variant wordt minder vaak gebruikt, maar in Duitsland heeft het CPO zich in de afgelopen 20 jaar sterk ontwikkeld.

Crisis and policy interventions in Western European housing markets: Do specific housing systems reduce the impact of the crisis?

The central question in our paper is how the crisis impacts on national housing markets: how vulnerable are specific housing systems to the crisis? We searched for the consequences of the current crisis on housing markets in five countries: Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and England. The results show that we must first of all make a...

Home ownership for all the young? (draft version)

Papers workshops

Enhancement of aircraft cabin comfort studies by coupling of models for human thermoregulation, internal radiation, and turbulent flows

Scientific enhancement of the analysis of thermal comfort aspects in aircraft cabins is the subject of the current investigation. For this purpose, three important processes are identified that play a significant role in thermal comfort, viz. the human response to its thermal environment which is also known as thermoregulation, the actual...