SAH Strasbourg Workshop: report is out!
Development Process and Land Strategies for Housing Affordability in Metropolitan Regions Eurométropole de Strasbourg 20-21 June 2024 This workshop aimed to ground the theoretical approaches used as analytical frameworks in the development process and, in particular, Anthony Giddens’ structure and agency methods. The workshop included several organisations and civil servants from the Metropolitan Region of…
METREX input to EU Plan for Affordable Housing
METREX stands ready to contribute its expertise and network of metropolitan regions to support the EU in developing a coherent, inclusive, and future-oriented plan for affordable housing. Background This note was developed on the basis of accrued knowledge and analysis in the METREX Expert Group “Sustainable and Affordable Housing” (SAH). The group has been coordinated…
Insightful reading: The Dutch plan benefit levy
In response to the growing international interest in land policy, this article written by Theo Stauttener, partner at Stadkwadraat, is an excellent reading and topical for the METREX Expert Group on sustainable and Affordable Housing (SAH). “This is a time for fundamental questions. The economy and functioning of the land market leads to the growth…
METREX at IFSH to launch Expert Group on Sustainable and Affordable Housing
New Expert Group from METREX to explore strategic issues around delivery of sustainable and affordable housing. METREX – the network of European Metropolitan Regions and Areas – will join the fourth edition of the International Social Housing Festival (ISHF) to launch a new Expert Group aimed at assessing the role of the metropolitan level in…
Welcome to the summer
Following a very active and rewarding past few months, where METREX was represented at events almost weekly – on a local, European and international level – we’re pleased to bring some updates and opportunities to engage during the rest of 2022. The Metropolitan Vision for Europe 2050, which we have been promoting at meetings across…
Support the EMA Lyon 2019 Declaration
Mayors, presidents and political representatives of the European metropolitan areas gathered in Lyon for the 5th EMA forum to advocate for ‘European inclusive metropolitan areas facing together social challenges’. The outcome of this meeting is a political declaration for which support is being sought from all European metropolitan regions and areas. “We are convinced that the challenge…
