EUKN - European Urban Knowledge Network - Comparative Housing Research - Approaches and Policy Challenges in a New International Era

Comparative Housing Research - Approaches and Policy Challenges in a New International Era - Delft, 24-25 March 2010

24-03-2010, Source: TU Delft

Introduction

A joint event between the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) Working Group on Comparative Housing Policy and the Asia Pacific Network of Housing Research (APNHR). Marking the re-launch of the European Journal of Housing Policy as the International Journal of Housing Policy.

Description

The conference will address questions such as:

What are the implications of the economic downturn for housing policy in different parts of the world?
What are the benefits and dangers, of housing policy transfer between countries?
What role can and should international agencies play in housing policy transfer?
What progress has been made in comparative housing research in recent years?
What conceptual and methodological challenges remain?
How can current developments in quantitative and qualitative techniques contribute to robust comparative housing research?
What difference has comparative housing research made to policy development both within and across countries? What more could it contribute?

Conference countdown

Registration opens November 30, 2009
Abstracts deadline: December 20, 2009
Registration: February 17, 2010
Submission of full papers : March 1st, 2010

Programme

Click here to view the draft programme;
and here for more info on the registration procedure and costs;
to download a conference flyer, click here.

Location

Delft, the Netherlands. For more info on the venue, click here.

Links

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