Rotterdam closes its social housing to poor immigrant families [EN] (4/2/06)

"There is something rotten in this city" The Rotterdam College of Burgomaster and Aldermen announced yesterday, that it has asked the Dutch Government, to agree to a new ruling that bars families who have an income under 120% of the minimum wage, or who did not live since 6 years in the country, from renting habitations that have been contructed under social housing laws. The ruling should apply to four areas in the Southern part of the city, and to a number of streets elsewhere. As it concerns neighbourhoods where this kind of flats number more than 90% of all living space, it boils down to an interdiction to newcomers (mostly Moroccan, Turkish and Antillean families) to rent housing in those areas.

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Manual helps local ONGs to access European Funds [EN] (2/2/06)

The useful EUKN network for European Urban Knowledge signals a new "Manual on the Management of the European Union Structural Funds". It is already the 2nd edition, 2006. It has been written by Brian Harvey with support from the EAPN Structural Funds Task Force. The Project was undertaken with the financial support of the European Commission.

The EAPN is an ONG that is managing an "European Poverty Network". The incredibly complicated bureaucracy that stands between local agents and their access to European funding through mostly national structures, has kept many among us to get a (supplementary) funding for our projects. This brochure may help a little. Clicking on the link above, will give it to you in a PDF format. eapn-manual.pdf (application/pdf Object).

[Originally published on Feb. 2, 2006 in: At Home in Europe]

REGENERA Budapest: Social Renovation in Housing Estates [EN] (19/1/06)

[EN] Post-1989 Budapest saw a period of "raw capitalism", with, inevitably, a massive deterioriation of communal housing and urban environments. As was explained to us in REGENERA by our Budapest colleagues, a small, but hopeful new start is being made now in some of those areas. The Budapest Mayor's Office has been instrumental in bringing this about. Analysis of the developing unsustainable urban social rupture, imposed a new approach. (Joszefváros borough and the Magdolna vicinity to be visited by a Regenera Workshop on March 31, 2006)

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E-Urban Images [EN][FR]: Regenera à La Haye | Regenera in The Hague 17/1/06)

[EN] ...A research visit of an international European Regenera team was made from 1-3 December 2005. The subject was: Health care in marginalised communities. | [FR] ...Une équipe européenne de recherche visita la ville du 1 au 3 décembre 2005. L'objet de leur enquête fut: Les soins de santé dans les communautés marginalisées urbaines.

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