From Brick-layers to Life-changers … and back again? A network governance perspective on the changing role of housing associations in the Netherlands and England in neighbourhood renewal – How (not) to involve housing associations in neighbourhood renewal –

There has been a growing understanding in the Netherlands and in the UK that sustained area based interventions are needed to address the multiple forms of deprivation concentrated in some neighbourhoods. Not-for-profit housing associations contribute to the regeneration of these neighbourhoods, each within the context of their national housing...

Institutional and organizational change in affordable housing provision

Social housing provision in the Italian region of Lombardy: Between market, state and community

This paper describes social housing developments in Lombardy, one of the most affluent regions in the Italy. Housing policy in Italy is mainly the responsibility of the Regions. We discuss the challenges of social housing provision and the interplay between market, state, community and third sector actors to provide affordable homes. However,...