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Summary of the Roma Housing Workshop

Explore the obstacles of integrating Roma housing projects into mainstream social policies. Discover issues like lack of institutional capacities, cream skimming, and failure to enhance tenure security for Roma communities. Gain insights on managing political risks, implication of bad planning, and policies limiting tenure security improvements.

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Summary of the Roma Housing Workshop

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  1. Summary of the Roma Housing Workshop Presenters: MarekHojsik, SK, StepanRipka, CZ, Mina Petrovic, SR, BoyanZahariev, BG, Gabriella Tonk and CatalinBerescu, RO, Eszter Somogyi, HU

  2. 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?

  3. 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?

  4. Lessons / Questions:What makes the linkage problematic?

  5. 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)

  6. (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?

  7. (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

  8. (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

  9. (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

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