Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. The Affordable Housing Forum of ETH CASE Centre for Research on Architecture, Society & the Built Environment held its 2018 conference at LISER on 12 and 13 November.

Over the two day period, 17 papers were presented to researchers (details here).  The 2018 theme of the Affordable Housing Forum (AHF) was: Towards Cultures of Affordable Housing? It invited submissions that investigated current forms and models of affordable housing – and their links to cultural and local context.

The AHF brings together researchers, architects, planners and housing professionals to stimulate knowledge exchange between young and established experts across different sectors and geographies. On European funding level, Luxemburg is considered as a country with a need to strengthen its international research. Consequently, ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE is delighted to organise with LISER the 3^rd AHF. Different thematic panels were grouped around our four research themes: People, Plans, Provision and Policy.

“This year’s 3rd Symposium of the Affordable Housing Forum by ETH CASE in collaboration with LISER has been a great success. All participants shared excellent knowledge with focus on policies, plans, practices, people of affordable housing issues in different local contexts. Discussions between experts, scholars and professionals deepened the exchange from the local to international perspectives. The roundtable organised by LISER with national Luxemburg actors opened the debate to the public and to the international research community and showed similarities and differences to  , e.g., the Swiss situation in Zurich. These are exactly the academic encounters that we aim to support for longterm research collaborations.”  Dr. Marie Glaser, ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE Zürich