W01 - Housing Finance and Residential Property Valuation
The last two years has seen turmoil in the housing finance markets across the world, after a long period of growth and innovation. The workshop expects to concentrate on some of the issues raised by these events – include fundamental questions about the role of debt finance; the range of mortgage investments available, the potential for public private partnerships; and the capacity to manage risk in different housing markets.
As always we welcome papers across a wide range of topics covering both private and public sector provision; housing finance and housing tenure; the specifics of different mortgage markets; the role of regulation; the impact of policy; innovation and economic change on both markets and individuals; and policy development. Both country specific and comparative analyses are welcome.
At least one session will address issues associated with property valuations and the quality of market information. Papers that examine specific valuation methodologies, including the use and impact of automated valuation methods (AVMs); the role that the quality of information valuation has played in the current financial crisis; and broader issues on the relationship between valuation, bank lending and securitisation are particularly welcome.
All enquiries about the workshop should be sent to Christine Whitehead or Tom Kauko or Jens Lunde.
W02 - Housing Economics, Governance and Regulation Policies
The working group focuses on the economics of housing markets, institutions and regulation policies. It promotes economic and econometric methods for the analysis of the interplay between markets, public and private agents in the spheres of housing markets, finance and development. A further topic is housing economics combined with issues in urban and regional economics, as well as spatial econometrics. Most of the issues fit to the workshop at the forthcoming conference in Prague, for which papers about the structure of housing markets are particularly welcome.
All enquiries about the workshop should be sent to Edwin Deutsch.
W03 - Housing and Minority Ethnic Groups
The central themes of the working group are: Housing conditions, housing preferences and residential mobility of minority ethnic groups; Concentration and segregation of minority ethnic groups; Living in multicultural neighbourhoods. For the ENHR conference in Prague we especially welcome papers that relate to one of the following themes:
All enquiries about the workshop should be sent to Gideon Bolt or Sule Özüekren.
W04 - Housing Market Dynamics
This is a well established workshop, now in its sixth year, whose subject is both the central theme of the Conference and a major concern within societies affected by the current global financial turmoil. The impact of the reduced availability of credit and continuing adjustments in property prices raise fundamental questions concerning the “drivers” of change in housing markets; the “value” of housing and the dynamics of housing markets in market economies. We would particularly welcome papers, from all disciplines, which address these issues, especially in the context of the transforming economies of former socialist countries. Papers dealing with theoretical and methodological approaches; policy interventions and consumer perspectives are invited, and we would also welcome returning papers which enable a review of progress from previous workshops. This is a highly participative workshop, and all colleagues - at whatever stage of their work - are warmly welcomed to join us.
All enquiries about the workshop should be sent to Richard Turkington or Peter Boelhouwer.
W05 - Private Rented Markets
This working group accepts papers on all aspects of private rented markets. In line with the theme of this year’s conference the working group is particularly seeking papers on the challenges currently faced by the wider “housing” economy and the place of the private rented sector within this changing environment. Previous themes will be expanded such as the role of the sector in providing for low income groups, the emergence of the sector within an enlarged Europe, the transitional role of the sector and its place in the face of more restricted access to homeownership and the impact of the global financial crisis on supply within the sector.
Papers are also welcome on a wide range of themes; previous areas discussed within the group have included comparative regulatory frameworks, investment models, tenant satisfaction, immigrant communities within the sector and the role of the sector in homeless provision.
All enquiries about the workshop should be sent to Aideen Hayden (aideen.hayden@ucd.ie) or Bob Jordan (bob@threshold.ie).
W06 - Social Housing in Europe: Institutional and Organisational Transformations
For the Prague ENHR conference we are proposing three linked themes that focus on the social content and meaning of social and affordable housing models. The first theme focuses on the organisational level and concerns the specification and measurement of social aims and organisational performance to include:
Papers on any of these topics would be most welcome with case study material from any part of Europe (especially Eastern Europe and Southern Europe) or indeed from other parts of the world.
All enquiries about the workshop should be sent to David Mullins or Mary Lee Rhodes or Claire Lévy-Vroelant or Christoph Reinprecht.
W07 - Challenges for housing and urban sustainable development in the perspective of rapid global change
Global issues such as climate change and the peak of oil production will powerfully influence the future development of cities and urban regions. Thus, besides the "natural" growth and change of cities, planners and architects face major uncertainties and new challenges. These include combining the short-term necessity of providing housing and infrastructure, handling peri-urban growth and the management of general growth or decline of the city region. These undertakings will also need to address the very long time perspectives and the mitigation and adaptation required in response to these global changes. If planning and design have taken on board the challenge of reducing environmental impacts and contributing to sustainable development, the adaptation to upcoming global changes is more recent on the agenda. This includes efforts on many different levels, from overall regional planning to design issues and specific residential cultures. The workshop invites papers and presentations related to these issues. The format of the workshop will be the same as previous years, with a combination of presentations and discussion.
All enquiries about the workshop should be sent to Darryl Low Choy or Montserrat Pareja Eastaway or Eli Stoa or Örjan Svane.
W08 - Migration, Residential Mobility and Housing Policy
The 'Migration, Residential Mobility and Housing Policy' workshop will focus on how housing markets, the neighborhood and the urban system influence and are influenced by population mobility, and how housing policy can be used to influence the effects of mobility on the local housing market. We are interested in both short distance mobility (residential
mobility) and long distance mobility (migration). The papers using the life course perspective to study mobility at the individual and household level (both preferences and restrictions), taking into account the opportunities and constraints related to the wider housing market and society, are welcomed. The papers may also relate to meaning/utility of location in housing choice for various socio-economic groups as well as mobility at a more aggregate level looking at processes of suburbanisation and counterurbanisation. In this call of papers we are particularly interested in two themes. The first is how the out-migration of certain groups has an effect on neighborhood dynamics and social cohesion. The second is how population mobility is caused by and has an effect on the shrinking population of regions and cities.
All enquiries about the workshop should be sent to Roland Goetgeluk or Maarten van Ham.
W09 - Housing Regeneration and Maintenance: Towards Sustainable Regeneration of the Housing Stock
Sustainable transformation and management of the housing stock constitutes an extensive societal challenge and is of great importance for the limitation of the environmental load caused by society. It is, however, not a simple matter. Improving the functional and environmental performance is hampered by physical characteristics of the existing building structures as well as a lack of innovative approaches to cope with these difficulties within the construction sector. Many suppliers and households on the housing market have limited knowledge of the possibilities to increase the environmental sustainability of the housing stock. Furthermore, the possibility to stimulate sustainable transformation of the housing stock through government regulation is limited due to deregulation and privatisation policies within the housing sector. This workshop welcomes papers about research, practices and new models of governance to stimulate the socio-economic and environmental sustainability of the existing housing stock. Participants of the workshop will also be invited to take part in a collaborative international research project.
All enquiries about the workshop should be sent to Vincent Gruis.
W10 - Dwelling and Home
This workshop is organized by the Residential Environments and People working group. This year, the focus is on the relationship between people and dwelling/s from the perspective of the individual and the experience of home. There are many ways of experiencing home, including through dwellings. Dwellings - as physical units or as delimited spaces - and their features, communicate meaning and individuals attach meaning to dwellings through their daily practices. By acting, perceiving, evaluating, preferring, choosing, and valuing dwellings, individuals give information on the ways in which dwellings are used, shaped and reshaped, and on how a dwelling becomes a home. Theoretical and empirical papers on dwelling/s, the concept of home and the relationship between dwellings and home are welcome.
All enquiries about the workshop should be sent to Henny Coolen or Hélène Bélanger.
W11 - Metropolitan housing policies: balancing between housing and urban challenges
Policies for new housing have to deal with many issues at once. Two of these seem to be especially important: affordability as the housing aspect, and sustainability, as the urban one. These are often in conflict with each other: affordability would require new housing to be built in cheaper, i.e more remote and less accessible areas - contributing in that way to urban sprawl. And vice versa: the sustainability oriented compact city idea makes new housing very often more expensive - i.e. less affordable.
Metropolitan housing markets differ substantially across Europe regarding the answer on this dilemma. In some countries market processes dominate, as a consequence of the fragmentation of the public sector. In others the public has some control over new housing, which might be used to promote either of the two aspects. There are also cases where city-region wide policies are subordinated to other interests.
The workshop aims to concentrate on the existence (strength) and choices (orientation) of metropolitan, city-region wide public policies over the forms and location of new housing. Special attention will be paid to develop hypotheses about the future: how will the growing challenges of climate change, raising energy prices and ageing society influence metropolitan housing policies in their choices between affordability and sustainability? Will these challenges and their conflicts lead to more coordinated, concentrated public policies or just the opposite, to more decentralization (towards the principle of subsidiarity)?
All enquiries about the workshop should be sent to Iván Tosics or Glen Bramley.
W12 - Welfare Policy, Homelessness and Social Exclusion, WELPHASE
Homelessness is a crucial area for collaboration in both research and practice. Consequently, as well as the refinement of conceptual and theoretical frameworks for research on homelessness, the working group also focuses on the broader issues of joint working - both across professions/policy areas and across academic disciplines. Opportunities for international, cross-disciplinary working are being keenly pursued. The WELPHASE Working Group will hold a workshop at the ENHR 2009 conference in Prague and welcome papers from across Europe and beyond, and across the working group themes of housing policy, welfare and social exclusion, as well as those relating specifically to the main conference theme of the integration and segmentation of changing housing markets.
All enquiries about the workshop should be sent to Evelyn Dyb or Joe Finnerty or Isobel Anderson.
W13 - Poverty Neighborhoods
Papers submitted for this workshop should especially be related to: (1) the living conditions and coping strategies of residents in deprived or poverty neighbourhoods; (2) the impact of such neighbourhoods on residents; (3) the dynamics of such neighbourhoods (especially increasing impoverishment or gentrification); and (4) the impacts of various public and private sector policies on such neighbourhoods. We especially encourage papers that relate these topics to the conference theme: "Changing Housing Markets: Integration and Segmentation."
All enquiries about the workshop should be sent to Jürgen Friedrichs or George C. Galster.
W14 - Housing and Social Theory: The permeable house - the porous home
Traditionally the home has been presented as a secure haven, a private space, a retreat from the pressures of the world. However both theoretical and political insights challenge this understanding of the home, suggesting for instance that the public/private divide is not clear cut, that ownership is not absolute, that past, present and future, inside and out, discipline and freedom, nature and artifice, work and rest, myth and reality all interrupt the stability that home claims. Moreover the confines of the home can be invaded, and the home can escape its confines. Perhaps most significantly home is the site of - and perhaps in itself generates - conflict and violence. The home can only be secure through the suppression of the contingencies it encloses.
Permeability affects even tenure that apparently secure method of organising occupational forms. As 'permeable' focuses on crossing through and over thresholds, and on recognising how leaky and blurred many boundaries are, housing forms which do not fit neatly into categories predicated on divisions such as public/private, owned/rented etc, become particularly interesting. Some sessions will focus on examining the extent to which co-operative housing schemes exemplify a more 'permeable' approach to thinking about, and practicing, 'home'. Utilizing such conceptual tools as Deleuze's 'fold', allows us to examine different patterns enfolding outside/inside in design features, in law, in lived experience etc, as well as examining how these dimensions are folded into each other, and with what affect (how contingent? how stable?). Can an examination of the experiences of co-operative housing, and the utilization of conceptual tools drawn from such theorists as Deleuze, help us to rethink what has so often been treated as axiomatic?
We are looking for papers which imagine the mobilities of home, theorise its permeabilities, and consider the pursuit of the illusion of home. We would also welcome other theoretical papers on housing and home.
All enquiries about the workshop should be sent to Helen Carr or Mark Vacher.
W15 - The Residential Context of Health
This workshop will follow the format used in the previous workshops sponsored by the WG Residential Context of Health. Topics appropriate for this workshop include, for example, the role of behavioral, social, and cultural factors in shaping relations between housing and physical and mental health; ways in which housing policy can be coordinated with other social welfare policies to more effectively pursue public health objectives; emerging initiatives for the delivery of health care services in the home, and; particularly relevant to the theme of the Prague conference, relations between economic aspects of housing (e.g., tenure form, mortgage debt) and mental as well as physical health.
All enquiries about the workshop should be sent to Terry Hartig or Roderick Lawrence.
W16 - East European Housing & Urban Policy
The workshop will focus on housing policy evaluation and assessment of different strategies to encourage the provision of affordable housing in Central and East European cities. The emphasis is on housing policy responses (e.g. demand- and supply-based subsidies) to make housing more affordable to vulnerable groups, to ensure access to social/public housing, as well as to encourage rehabilitation of multi-family housing. Particular emphasis is given to the urban dimension of affordability in the context of economic, social and political change. We would also very much welcome papers based on comparative empirical research on the impact of different housing policy instruments on housing affordability in different cities and/or countries. The WG is soliciting contributions for an edited volume on social housing in the region to complement the range of papers presented at the 2008 workshop in Budapest organized by the Metropolitan Research Institute.
All enquiries about the workshop should be sent to Sasha Tsenkova or József Hegedüs.
W17 - Legal Aspects of Housing, Land and Planning
This years' conference theme of integration and segregation in housing markets is particularly suited to the sort of lively debate that has characterized previous sessions. Papers are accepted on any topic or discipline on legal aspects of housing, land and planning, for example: How can decent living environments can be delivered and managed, whilst mastering complicated legal problems thrown up by conflicting objectives? Are there emerging European approaches, or are there diverse local initiatives which should be disseminated? Should state aid prioritize helping the poor or seek to create social mix in the interests of harmonious communities and pleasant environments? How can land law accommodate both secure credit finance and the complexities of mixed land uses and densely packed residential communities? How can law produce fairness and balance different rights when regulating markets?
All enquiries about the workshop should be sent to Jane Ball.
W18 - Growing and Shrinking Cities – Effects on weak Housing Estates and Opportunities for Action
There are precarious relations between growth and shrinkage in European regions and cities. Some are affected by an overall downward spiral of economic decline and population decrease, while others are under the continuing pressures of growth. But even in the latter there are pockets of decline and shrinkage, while declining cities and regions are also growing in specific sectors. Macro developments, based in the economy, demography and migration are strongly reflected in neighbourhoods. Large homogenous parts of the housing markets are more vulnerable when demands are changing. The large post war housing estates seem to be especially problematic, but increasingly also other housing typologies are influenced by demographic and economic changes, turning many certainties – i.e. the value of home-ownership as a socio-political asset – upside down. Problems vary locally, but the older housing stock, or the more recently built large areas of single-family homes can be affected. These typologies also need careful observation with respect to demand and their ability to adapt to a changing social environment – in Western Europe as well as in the post-socialist states.In this workshop, we want to discuss key elements of these changes and what their consequences are for different housing typologies.
We invite research papers as well as research-based policy papers and case studies about these questions to be presented and debated at the Prague workshop. The intention is to publish the proceedings that deal with the topic as a special issue or book that can be used for policy implementation and the research agenda for the next decade in the various countries of the European Union.
All enquiries about the workshop should be sent to Thomas Knorr-Siedow or Frank Wassenberg.
W19 - Gender and Housing
Issues of gender, diversity and the built environment have been catching a growing attention within the Academia during the last years. Nevertheless, this is still a field of knowledge in a huge need of both empirical and theoretical inputs. Questions on both gender and sexuality are interesting to assert in terms of differentiated access of gender groups to housing market, to the subsidiary or welfare system, to the housing loan market, etc. Other interesting questions are the challenges put by new household structures with a growing proportion of patchwork families’ and single parents’ households and women’s longer life expectancies for housing policy and housing market. Furthermore, papers addressing methodological and theoretical issues and papers on the implementation of the gender diversity perspective in academic teaching and the transfer of knowledge into practice are welcome.
All enquiries about the workshop should be sent to Irene Molina or Christiane Droste.
W 20 - Land for Social and Affordable Housing: Threats and Opportunities in Changing Housing Markets
This workshop is organised in follow-up of the last two ENHR-conferences. It adresses topics related to the provision of land for housing, with an emphasis on social and affordable housing. As the provision of building land sets an important physical condition for housing production, this topic is of utmost relevance to ENHR’s 2009 conference theme of integration and segregation in changing housing markets. That is because the area as well as the (spatial) distribution of land available for (social and affordable) housing strongly affects processes of social exclusion and – more in general – the geography of opportunity of those who are dependant of various categories of housing. While some countries still struggle with rising land prices as an obstacle to constructing social and affordable housing, others may look at opportunities in the current commercial housing market crisis to (re)claim land for anti-cyclical investments in housing, or even have to solve land-related problems facing structural vacancies or abandonment of part of the housing stock. Another issue deserving thorough consideration in the light of the commercial housing crisis is how to safeguard a basic level of production of social and affordable housing in countries that rely on policies of ‘inclusionary zoning’. The working group has prepared a framework for discussing and analyzing public policies as well as the strategies of providers of (social and affordable) housing and other parties in the land market in a European comparative perspective, and it hopes this framework will inspire a lively exchange of both empirical findings and grounded explanations related to the workshop theme.
All enquiries about the workshop should be sent to George de Kam.
