Social housing landscape, definitions, and models
- Explore the stage of development and urbanization in Hungary 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 Hungary and discuss their merits and reasons for success or failure;
- Identify and review good housing practices in Hungary 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 Hungary
- Collect housing demand data in Hungary (housing prices and affordability, housing tenures, living arrangements by age groups, social housing provisions, number of people waiting for social housing or being institutionalizedā¦)
- 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, refugeesā¦)
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
