Bike tour in Ghent #2

Housing is a “hot” topic in Ghent. Only recently a referendum on affordable housing has been pushed on to the agenda. The housing crisis is making itself felt and requires an adapted housing policy to prevent more families from being affected by housing insecurity, housing debt and poor housing quality, etc. The city is also struggling with an outdated housing stock. Good housing is a fundamental right, and improvements are needed urgently. The population group with the lowest incomes are hit hard by the current crisis. They need help in finding good, healthy and affordable housing.

In the past five years there has been an exciting movement in the field of social housing in Ghent. Archipel organizes this show-case tour in consultation with Thuispunt Gent and Team Stadsbouwmeester, to show how social housing in a city can be done differently. We see how the outdated housing stock is being tackled, we dive into various typologies, look at how to futureproof new social housing, what acquisition structures exist, what strategies are being used.
We zoom in on the current challenges facing a city like Ghent.

We selected a series of innovative examples from the numerous social housing project that are being realised in Ghent.