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Building inclusion projectAccess to housing and inclusion in Europe

The WODC has participated in an international research project on social inclusion of vulnerable groups in different European countries.

1. Aims
2. Activities
3. Electronic bulletins and Newsletters
4. More information

The WODC has participated in an international research project on social inclusion of vulnerable groups in different European countries. The project is financed by the European Community Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity (2007-2013). The WODC took part in this project in collaboration with the Social and Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands (SCP).

Aims

• To exchange experiences with other Member States and different stakeholders in order to contrast information on the situation in other countries and assess possible solutions adopted and proved, dealing mainly with social protection mechanism applied to immigrant people, for avoiding their discrimination in the urban areas and especially in the access to housing and education.
• To generate a set of recommendations and strategic working procedures that help on designing equality treatment policies towards immigrant people in relation to access to housing and the use in equality conditions the educative services, incorporating special mechanisms of social protection when the discrimination produces serious situations and/or of social conflict
• To study exclusion phenomenon of immigrant people in urban are as in different Member States in relation to discrimination factors in access to housing and the consequences and impacts of this discrimination in urban are as : the coexistence of different groups with integration difficulties; the gathering of immigrant people in specific neighbourhoods; the overcrowding phenomenon; youth violence - gangs phenomenon -; and discrimination in the access and use of particular public services - mainly education - .

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Activities

The SCP and the WODC have organised a fieldtrip in the Hague and Rotterdam to multicultural neigbourhoods where participants visited several housing- and integration projects. The two institutes have also produced a country report which gives a historical overview of the Dutch housing policies and the position of ethnic minority groups in the housing sector (see: More infomation). Further information on the project, participating countries and institutions, and the reports produced by different countries can be found on the Building inclusion project website (See: More information).

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Electronic bulletins and Newsletters

In the course of the project, respectively two electronic bulletins and newsletters have been produced. The pdf's of the electronic bulletins and newsletters can be found in the section: More information.

More information

• Newsletter_2 (2009)14-07-2009 | pdf-document, 5.21 MB
• Newsletter_1 (2008)14-12-2008 | pdf-document, 6.69 MB
• Electronic Bulletin_2 (2009)21-04-2009 | pdf-document, 0.88 MB
• Electronic Bulletin_1 (2008)01-08-2008 | pdf-document, 0.79 MB
• 1634 - Overmutual learning on social inclusion and social protection

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More information

• Building inclusion project