Affordable housing experts from all around the globe are constantly devising ever-more innovative solutions to meet the social housing challenges of the day. The aim of ISH.SUM is to create the definitive forum where these common challenges can be explored and hard won experience can be shared. Attendees will benefit from first-hand practical knowledge of the most successful housing strategies, financial models and sustainability innovations driving change internationally and return home equipped and inspired to apply these solutions to their own organisations.

The current financial crises will see an increase in inequalities across income, education and health and lead to dangerous new levels of social and economic “apartheid”. Housing providers are working right at the heart of these issues and it’s clear that near approaches to both sourcing funding and maximizing efficiencies need to be found. How can providers move out of their silos and work in a smart way with partners across energy, health insurance etc, to reduce the growing pressures on tenants and ensure their own survival?

Lecture Arie Voorburg, ARCADIS
On Thursday October 14 Arie Voorburg, Senior Consultant at Arcadis, will be panelist in the session Social Housing in The Netherlands: Building strong communities. Besides that he will give a lecture about Funding 2.0: How housing providers need to work fast and work smart to reduce the growing financial pressure on their tenants and survive this recession.

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