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Summary of the Roma Housing Workshop. Presenters: Marek Hojsik , SK, Stepan Ripka , CZ, Mina Petrovic , SR, Boyan Zahariev , BG, Gabriella Tonk and Catalin Berescu , RO, Eszter Somogyi , HU. Challenges to linking (Roma) housing inclusion projects to mainstream social housing policy.
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Summary of the Roma Housing Workshop Presenters: MarekHojsik, SK, StepanRipka, CZ, Mina Petrovic, SR, BoyanZahariev, BG, Gabriella Tonk and CatalinBerescu, RO, Eszter Somogyi, HU
Challenges to linking (Roma) housing inclusion projects to mainstream social housing policy • Should we stop all programs? vs. • Should we take a closer look why mainstream social housing (programs) cannot and do not take the risk of dealing with housing for marginalised groups / Roma?
Horizontal issues across all countries • General shortage of social housing (also a public funding issue?) • Housing rights are not settled/enforced • Social housing policy is a decentralised policy No or few institutional capacities beyond the state and municipal sector • General cream skimming in social housing policy and especially in the case of Roma programs • What is the common baseline for the region?
Failure to think / embed into mainstream? • Failure to manage political risk? • Outcome of bad planning? • Policies not dealing with improvements of tenure security (of Roma)? (Newly emerging ghettos / invisibility / mobility)
(1) Failure to think / embed into mainstream? • Solutions are applied are disconnected from mainstream or structurally embedded programs/settings • Spatially • „ladder type of approach” – what is available for non-Roma, is not offered to Roma • Even though national level policies might be there, the local implementation fails – is it a funding issue?
(2) Failure to manage political risk? • Dealing with Roma (housing) issues is politically risky • Discretion of the municipality although housing exclusion is a manifestation of macro-level problems • Receiving communities’ objections • Enabled communities may reshape the local political battle-field
(3) Outcome of bad planning? • No response given to mechanisms of exclusion, real needs or history of deprivation • Quality of housing offered • Coverage vs. scale of the problem • ERDF: failing to reach the most in need • National regulations / planning instruments exacerbate problems of ERDF • Replicability / transferability issues
(4) Policies not dealing with improvements of tenure security (of Roma)? • Very forceful way of reproducing housing exclusion • Although methodology might be available, no or weak incentives to make use of them • Mainstream social housing allocation excludes Roma • No preventative actions / effective social or housing allowance system available