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Conference - Protecting Europe's most vulnerable through sustainable and affordable housing

09:00-09:30 — Registration

09:30-09:40 — Opening remarks

  • Séamus Boland, President of the Civil Society Organisations’ Group of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)

09:40-10:50 — Affordable and sustainable housing in the EU, the way forward

Moderator: Rudolf Kolbe, Vice-President of the Civil Society Organisations' Group

  • Marcos Ros Sempere, Member of the European Parliament (S&D Group, Spain)
  • Thomas Kattnig, Rapporteur of EESC opinion TEN/841 "Social housing in the EU - decent, sustainable and affordable"
  • Agnieszka Maj, co-author of the EESC study on 'Affordable sustainable housing in the EU' and economist at Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE) - Presentation of the EESC study
  • Discussion

10:50-11:50 — Affordable housing as a means to tackling poverty

Moderator: Baiba Miltoviča, President of the EESC's TEN section and Member of the Civil Society Organisations' Group

  • Sorcha Edwards, Secretary General of Housing Europe
  • Michele Calandrino, Team Leader on Homelessness at the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission
  • Bernd Rießland, former Chairman of the Austrian Federation of Limited-Profit Housing Associations
  • Discussion

11:50-12:00 — Coffee break

12:00-12:50 — Housing challenges for specific groups

Moderator: Pietro Barbieri, Vice-President of the Civil Society Organisations' Group

  • Haydn Hammersley, Social Policy Coordinator at the European Disability Forum - Challenges for people with disabilities
  • Nóra Teller, Metropolitan Research Institute - Challenges for the Roma community
  • Elizabeth Gosme, Director of COFACE Families Europe - Challenges for multi-generational households
  • Discussion

12:50-13:00 — Concluding remarks

  • Séamus Boland, President of the Civil Society Organisations’ Group