Upcycling Trust: Upcycling substandard buildings into affordable housing with Community Land Trusts Vrije Universiteit Brussel
With the Upcycling Trust project, ...
On the background of growing privatisation of resources, of the incapacity of both private and public forms of arrangements to protect them, other forms of governing the resources and building welfare are emerging. This dissertation questions the emancipatory role of property under the current circumstances: under which conditions can property be emancipatory? My hypothesis is that the different ways of owning currently being experimented by ...
Highly ambitious in its objectives and scope and innovative in its focus, conceptualisation and methodology, EqualHouse is the first research project to integrate all dimensions of housing inequality into one transdisciplinary and transnational research design. By analysing the many aspects of housing inequality, hitherto largely studied separately, it will make key contributions to understanding of housing inequality and how it can be ...
This doctoral thesis studies the interorganisational trust process in the Belgian criminal justice system. It is the result of a five-year (2012-2017) study in the context of the IAP project Justice and Populations (IAP VII/22) financed by Belspo. The research takes a public administration perspective and studies the trust process between the local police, the federal police, the public prosecutor’s office and the examining ...
In the short term the challenges of the project are to (1) Create a frame for orienting inmates and ex-offenders to suitable housing and employment. This frame consists in sensitising and unburdening potential employers in the construction and agricultural sector when recruiting, training and employing inmates and ex-offenders; identifying houses, followed by the setting up of innovative learning environments; energy-efficient renovation of ...
Based on the increasing commodification of the social housing market and the consequences this has carried for the affordability and security of housing for underprivileged residents, the wider research project this PhD is embedded in intends to (1) study the extent to which the right to housing for underprivileged residents is reclaimed in new housing strategies and through social housing activism as well as (2) the extent to which this ...
A main outcome of the recent housing cum refugee crisis in Europe are socially innovative, solidarity-inspired and pro-refugee approaches to social cohesion featured in alternative forms of housing commons (Community Land Trusts, co-housing, housing associations). These housing alternatives are increasingly taken up by civil society movements and occasionally supported by institutional structures, yet their integrative role and ...