Explore the stage of development and urbanization in Croatia as well as the legal and institutional frameworks in which housing is provided;
Review the existing national housing policies and national/local housing regulations;
Gather data and analyze the national housing provision policies and practices;
Identify past and current social housing models in Croatia and discuss their merits and reasons for success or failure;
Identify and review good housing practices in Croatia and some comparable countries.
Housing needs
- Compile specific housing demographic data and economic characteristics and trends and discuss the availability and adequacy of community services;
- Collect and analyze data on housing stock including socially-owned housing in Croatia;
- Collect housing demand data in Croatia (housing prices and affordability, housing tenures, living arrangements by age groups, social housing provisions, number of people waiting for social housing or being institutionalized)
- Identify vulnerable social groups, their size, and specific needs regarding social housing (people living in homelessness, households living in insecure or inadequate housing, young people leaving institutional care, refugees)
Empty spaces landscape
- Assess, identify, and map the empty and underused properties and create an inventory explicating ownership and type of building;
- Identify and propose incentives for mobilizing support for the re-use of vacant properties through transparent and inclusive participatory processes;
- Identify innovative experiences already experimented in some areas that can feed, inform, and inspire coherent housing strategies;
- Evaluate the position and awareness of the real-estate/residential industry towards empty space conversion including identification of all the barriers and challenges (financial, legal, legislative, business modelā¦) preventing existing stock of empty spaces being converted into homes at scale.
Housing finance and social housing market opportunities
- Identify the current national funding strategies and models for social housing;
- Identify and review the range of financial vehicles that can channel the flow of social housing capital, including direct public expenditure like grants or loans, via government intermediaries and/or as loans via private financial institutions;
- Identify and evaluate impacts and opportunities for the housing market of the empty spaces conversion (public support, borrowing from the banks, own resources, cross finance, tenant equity contributionā¦);
- Explore new and innovative approaches shaping the social housing industry towards achieving social and financial efficiencies.
Key housing actors (PPPP)
Identify and map the public, private, and social actors in housing policy and service provision;
Review the key housing actors roles in housing policy and service provision in light of sustainable housing and deliberative democracy;
Provide insight in developing synergies between public, private, and social actors by taking into account the real housing, economic-productive, and social needs of the vulnerable population
