Social Housings research project report by social.housings

Index I. WARSAW SOCIAL DISTRICT + SOCIAL HOUSINGS RESEARCH PHASE II. WARSAW SOCIAL DISTRICT MASTERPLAN III. SOCIAL HOUSINGS PUBLICATIONS IV. SCHEDULE V. FEEDBACK

Social Housings Research Project Report October 2019 Zuzanna Mielczarek & Zofia Piotrowska Starting Grant Grant Programme for Internationalization Creative Industries Fund NL Period: 2017-2019 / round 17IC Collaborating country: Poland

I. WARSAW SOCIAL DISTRICT + SOCIAL HOUSINGS RESEARCH PHASE Why and how

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Social Housings Workshop: enabling international knowledge exchange

Warsaw Social District (also translated as Warsaw Community District) was a research and design project, which aimed at finding housing solutions most adequate to the local context of Poland and most specifically its capital. We are happy that our Social Housings research project was a major part of it, actually brought an aspect of analytical research to the project and generated something that we didn’t expect, which is a critical analysis of the housing systems - of both “the exemplary country” (so the Netherlands) and “the target country” (Poland). The project was composed of three main parts which were interdependent and happened simultaneously next to each other. There was a research phase based on field trips, interviews with professionals and inhabitants. Secondly there was an exchange of knowledge between professionals with the key moment during the workshop on 2nd of February 2018, but also during a very informative field trip to the Netherlands, where policymakers and designers from Warsaw broadened their understanding of social housing projects. And then thirdly there was knowledge creation summarized in several articles and the final publication.

One of the key moments of the research was a workshop on social housing policies in Rotterdam and Warsaw, held in Rotterdam on the 2nd of February 2018. Ideas were shared between city officials and professionals from those two cities. The workshop was held in the STIPO office located in Zoho district in Rotterdam, which in itself is an interesting area which was redesigned together by STIPO and Havensteder, one of the biggest housing associations in Rotterdam. We would like to especially thank STIPO - urban planning consultancy office and Havensteder, one of the biggest housing associations in Rotterdam. Those two institutions also informed us on Dutch housing strategies in individual interviews.

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List of the workshop participants

Workshop process and conclusions

From Warsaw: Joanna Erbel - Department of Housing Policies, City of Warsaw Piotr Sawicki - Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, City of Warsaw Bartosz Rozbiewski - Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, City of Warsaw Milena Trzcińska - BGGK Architekci, architecture and urbanism Wojciech Kotecki - BGGK Architekci, architecture and urbanism Justyna Biernacka- Fundacja Przestrzenie, sustainability expert

©Milena Trzcińska

From Rotterdam: Mattijs van ’t Hoff - STIPO, urban strategy and city development consultant Paul Elleswijk - Havensteder, housing association Jeroen Dirckx - KCAP Architects & Planners, urbanism Ania Molenda - Amateur Cities, urban research Ingrid de Bont - Municipality of Rotterdam, housing expert

©Milena Trzcińska

The workshop was divided into two parts - presentations from Havensteder (by Paul Elleswijk), STIPO (by Mattijs van ‘t Hoff) and Department of Housing Policies of the City of Warsaw (by Joanna Erbel), and then a group discussions on main threat and opportunities connected to social housing projects. Despite differences in the national social housing system, we realised that challenges are similar. We diagnosed three main problems: lack of solutions for middle income groups, homogeneity and inflexibility. Thus, we worked on more detailed solutions how to approach those issues.

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2. The social mix needs to be one of the main objectives of any housing programs. Social mix needs to be done on two levels - income mix and demographic mix. It is very challenging to “engineer” demographic mix in projects, however many providers manage to do this or stimulate it by proposing different apartment sizes. Income mix ensures long term success of the projects and can also help them cross-subsidize them (as middle ones are self-financing, commercial are generating profit so that the cheapest ones can make a loss). 3. Flexibility needs to be provided on two levels - systematic and spatial. The system can only work if it’s adaptable to the needs of the society and individual inhabitants. For example- the price of the apartment should be recalculated with the income rise of its inhabitant, so that one can have a long term security and stability of staying in the house, but is still motivated to develop and improve his financial situation. Secondly the housing estates need to robust but adaptable - for now this can be a challenge with underground parking garages or other type of infrastructure.

©Milena Trzcińska

1. There is a housing gap for the middle income groups, for those unable to get a mortgage, but earning more than social housing income limits. We suggested that variety of actors could play a part in addressing this problem and different model could be used to provide this type of affordable (not subsidized but low profit) housing, including public-private or public-social partnerships. The needs of this group have to be included in the cities housing strategies and actually it is in the new strategy for Warsaw.

©Milena Trzcińska

This workshop, as the analysis of the situation and our conclusions, did in big part inform the article Socialising social housing published on Archined as well as influenced the overall research.

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©Milena Trzcińska

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Site visits Site visits with the partners

Broad exploration of the housing projects of Eastern Amsterdam was possible thanks to architectural guide Christa Rinzema, invited by us for the tour. The programme included: Visit to Funenpark - innovative urban development concept, combining living and working, with 30% of social housing units; Walk through Borneo-Sporenburg - analysis of the masterplan, different housing blocks, including the Whale (with 214 social housing units); Visit to KNSM and Java Island; Ijburg - Amsterdam’s largest housing development on 7 artificial islands on the lake IJmeer - analysis of the masterplan, residential typologies of various scales In Rotterdam, we visited Stadstuinen project in Koop van Zuid and then moved to KCAP Architects and Planners headquarters for a presentation by Masha Pidodnia on their residential projects (as above-mentioned Stadstuinen or GWL Terrein).

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Diego Pos, GWL terrein inhabitant (from its foundation) and the member of the residents council, made a presentation on the idea and the history of the bottom-up initiative for the creation of the eco-district on the former water pipeline site in Western Amsterdam. Also thanks to Diego, we had a possibility to visit several apartments in different buildings (both segments - commercial and social housing) and talk to the inhabitants. We already knew some of them, as two months before, we made an individual visit to conduct the interviews and take a photo documentation of the district.

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We organized a set of the site visits for the Polish participants of the workshop, during their stay in the Netherlands in February 2018. The observations and findings from the visits to the case study Dutch residential projects, resulted in a complex research part of the Warsaw Social District project. The main focus was: distribution of social and functional mix within a district and a building (including different housing sectors); friendly communal public spaces; sustainability agenda; efficient housing typologies.

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The most important site visit would not be possible without help and support of Diego Pos, GWL Terrein inhabitant and member of the residents council. Thanks to him, we were able to schedule visits to six apartments in different buildings of the complex and had a chance to talk to numerous inhabitants. This possibility of the site analysis of the apartments of different typologies, different housing segments (social and affordable housing, private ownership) was a crucial point in our research process. Conversations with residents of different age, lifestyle, family model, financial resources in relation to their housing situation were helpful to understand the complexity of Dutch housing system. Conclusions from the interviews and photo documentation of the model, socially-mixed eco-district of GWL Terrein are present in Social Hougings publications and guidelines to Warsaw Social District. Besides GWL Terrein, we visited and analyzed i.a.: Ijburg, Funenpark, de Flat Kleiburg in Amsterdam; Stadstuinen, Le Medi and Justus van Effen complex in Rotterdam. Moreover, we visited Clichy-Batignolles district in Paris and Savonnerie Heymans in Brussels.

©Zuzanna Mielczarek

Core team individual visits

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II. WARSAW SOCIAL DISTRICT MASTERPLAN

©Zofia Piotrowska

What is Warsaw Social District? Warsaw Social District (or Warsaw Community District, both translations has been used, as well as Polish shortcut- WDS) started as an initiative of Tomasz Andryszczyk, Joanna Erbel and Wojciech Kotecki. Since it’s inception, it was supported by many – the municipality officials, the neighbourhood inhabitants and independent experts. The project would not exist without this collective, constructive engagement. The site of the Warsaw Community District project is located in Ulrychów in Wola district on the site where the former prefab factory produced the surrounding housing estates built in the ’70 and ‘80. Metaphorically, we are recreating the history of this location – what was once the manufactory of mass housing, will again provide housing for everyone. The project is a reaction to the common criticisms of the market housing. The commercial housing model is by definition conservative and does not respond to inhabitants’ needs, perceiving them merely as clients, rather than valuable members of the community. As a result, newly built estates rarely aim to realize the objectives of a happy city.

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Warsaw Social District (WDS) - how did the Social Housings research influence the WDS project? The project was commissioned by the Planning Bureau of the City in Warsaw. The research findings were included in the booklet with project guidelines. This part of the WDS project was an analytical phase which was a preparation before a second phase - the concept design phase.

©BBGK Architekci

The booklet was composed of two parts - site analysis and project guidelines (this is where the main part of the research was published). The main contribution from our side was an analysis of three international social housing projects - Mehr Als Wohnen in Zürich, Clichy-Batignolles in Paris and GWL Terrein in Amsterdam. The Amsterdam project was researched in greatest details through field trips, interviews with inhabitants and the designers (KCAP Architects & Planners). Additionally, based on several Dutch housing projects and publications done by STIPO The City at Eye Level – Lessons for Street Plinths and De Stoep, we prepared architectural design guidelines for creating lively neighborhoods.

©BBGK Architekci

The second phase of the WDS project started in November 2018. The project was done by BBGK Architekci office, with Zofia Piotrowska as a project leader, who is engaged in the Social Housings research. Therefore there was a continuation of ideas, knowledge and even people working on the project. The next booklet finalized in May 2019 (with last edits still done in October 2019) summarized the project design, analysis and guidelines. The master plan of the WDS was based on six main ambitions. Three of them touch upon social aspects - urbanity (as an active urban environment), community, diversity. The other three are more “technical” - sustainable mobility, environment and construction. They might seem to overlap with each other, as they all affect one another and only when put together form a consistent whole. However when defined separately, they clearly demonstrate the reasoning behind the design process.

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of Warsaw and most adequately answer its local problems. The project of the Warsaw Social District was put on hold due to formal reasons (reprevatisions claims to the site, which limit investment options, but also lack of further political decisions regarding the project). We hope that it is not the end of the project. Even if the continuation of the project will not happen on that particular site, WDS will become a precedent and a harbinger of the future change.

The final masterplan project was finished in June/July 2019 with small revisions done upon request of the municipality in autumn 2019. This public project gave an opportunity to create a new model, where all the planning aspects were coherent and fulfilled the expectations of different social groups. Warsaw Social District is a project, which works as an example and a prototype for new design solutions. Warsaw Social District was also an important process which connected city officials, architects, engineers and researchers. They teamed up to work on the design that could best represent the ambitions of the city

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Spatially, the whole structure is composed of mega blocks, which are spacious enough to fit inside a linear park and the social infrastructure – such as a community centre, a school, kindergartens and a sport hall. Those mega blocks are further divided into building groups with half-open courtyards, which are small enough to create a feeling of community. The whole urban structure is both permeable and characteristic in the means of spaces created within. The draft of the master plan was consulted with the public in spring 2019. All the publications were available during the public presentations of the project in March and April of 2018 and during the exhibition Future Living presented in ZODIAK Warsaw Pavilion of Architecture in Warsaw from the 8th of March until the 26th of May 2019. All the publications on WDS were done in Polish language only.

III. SOCIAL HOUSINGS PUBLICATIONS

Social Housings Glossary

Self-publishing: three publications

https://issuu.com/social.housings/docs/social_housings_glossary

©Zuzanna Mielczarek

©Kuba Rodziewicz

One of the results of Social Housings research project is a series of three complementary publications: Social Housings Glossary, Social Housings Essays and On the social photozine. Each of the books includes different content and was designed in different size and aesthetics. Together, they provide a comprehensive summary of the Social Housings research project, including: published articles, information on Warsaw Social District, gathered knowledge in the form of glossary, photographic documentation in the form of visual essay. Books were designed in collaboration with graphic designer Wojciech Gawroński, printed and bound in Publication Studio Rotterdam and Enaf Warsaw. Each of them has been published in a small display edition of 10 copies. Being satisfied with the result, in the future we would like to look for a funding to publish them in a bigger edition and distribute to a broader audience. The Social Housings booklets set could be a compendium for city officials, architects, planners, students and other persons interested in housing policies.

idea The idea of Social Housings Glossary is to clarify numerous architectural, programmatic and social terms related to inclusive housing. Research is based on the situation in the Netherlands and Poland, with global context taken into account.

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form The form of Social Housings Glossary publication is inspired by the classic Langenscheidt pocket dictionaries. It is visible in its yellow rubber cover with big blue H; thin glossy paper and specific graphic design, including illustrations

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content Glossary is divided into three main parts: - Form-oriented housing terms - terms related to the form of housing estates, complexes, buildings and apartments, including spatial typology and methodology of description and measurement of scale; - Program-oriented housing terms - the chapter explains terms on the relation between an inhabitant and legal conditions under which he uses a housing unit - type of housing tenure, type of supplier. We explain here Dutch housing context and global context of the housing crisis. - The future of fair housing - subsidies, non-speculative housing forms, solutions for inclusive housing.

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Social Housings Essays

©Kuba Rodziewicz

https://issuu.com/social.housings/docs/social_housings_essays

©Kuba Rodziewicz

- ’Long live normality!’ - Zuzanna Mielczarek and Zofia Piotrowska, published in Architektura&Biznes, 03/2019 - ’Mix to the max’ - Zuzanna Mielczarek and Zofia Piotrowska, published in Architektura & Biznes 05/2019 - WDS - Warsaw Social District - description - Bibliography for the whole Social Hougings research project

idea Essays included in this book are a reflection on different understandings of social housing based on the study of Dutch and Polish contexts. All of them have been previously published in the architectural magazines in Poland and the Netherlands in 2018-2019. form Social Housings Essays is edited as a classic essay book with the specific layout, fonts, format and paper.

©Kuba Rodziewicz

content Articles: - ’Socializing Social Housing’ - Zofia Piotrowska, published on Archined.nl, 7.09.2018 - ’Poor Houses’ - Zuzanna Mielczarek, published in Kwartalnik Rzut 19(1)/2019

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On the social photozine

form On the social photozine refers to a real estate or travel agency catalogue easthetics (format, cover, paper embossing). However, its purpose is not to sell anything as its content touches the topic of inclusive, non-speculative housing.

https://issuu.com/social.housings/docs/on_the_social_photo_zine

idea The word ‘social’ has multiple layers of meaning. When referring to housing, it immediately suggests subsidies, financial support and low-cost projects for the poor. The term ‘social’, as in to ‘live off the social’ (off the social welfare) or ‘on the social’, is generally used in the sense of being part of the social security system. The expression ‘on the social’ extists also in Polish language (‘na socjalu’). This idea can be illustrated by the image of over-sized, anonymous blocks inhabited by the lowest classes only. What comes to mind later, is another meaning of ‘social’ — the organization of society and a form of collective living. Thus, social housing can be understood in different ways - as public housing for underprivileged and low-income groups and as a more general term. The broader understanding would include all the models of conscious, inclusive housing with a strong communal agenda. On the social photozine is a visual essay presenting documentation of our visits to the Dutch housing complexes.

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content Photodocumentation of our visits to the Dutch housing complexes (including apartments visits): GWL Terrein, Ijburg and de Flat,Kleiburg in Amsterdam; Justus van Effen Complex and le Medi in Rotterdam in the period 2017-2018.

Socializing Social Housing - Zofia Piotrowska, published on Archined.nl, 7.09.2018 /1.000 readers

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https://www.archined.nl/2018/09/socializing-social-housing/

PUBLICATIONS - MAGAZINES & ONLINE A series of four articles published in Polish magazines - Kwartalnik Rzut, Architektura&Biznes and Dutch online platform Archined helped us to structure the research focus. Moreover, publishing in the magazines of a broad outreach, we played a part in popularizing Dutch housing architecture and policy in Poland as well as in the Netherlands (Archined) within the group of professionals and enthusiasts. In these publications we focused on: Dutch social housing system and its policy shift; European context of the housing crisis; Polish public housing system; Other European housing policies - France, Denmark, Austria; inclusiveness (and lack of inclusiveness) in housing; analysis of the Dutch case studies; analysis of the tools for the social mix; Warsaw Social District project. Articles are illustrated by the photo documentation from our site visits.

As part of our research into a new housing strategy for Warsaw, Poland, we decided to study the Dutch social housing system. It has always been presented as an inclusive solution, which resulted in high-quality developments built as part of an integrated planning process. However, we were surprised to discover that our most recent case studies were completed over a decade ago. Was this due to the real estate crisis? Or did the whole system recently undergo some major changes? In the article, Zofia Piotrowska discusses her own housing situation in the Netherlands; the notion of the word ‘social’ in terms of social housing; history of the Dutch housing associations and social housing system; Dutch housing policy shift; global and European housing crisis context (housing shortage, housing prices rising faster than incomes...); potential solutions for more inclusive housing.

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Poor Houses - Zuzanna Mielczarek, published in Kwartalnik Rzut 19(1)/2019 (Poverty) /1.200 readers

What makes houses for the poor – poor and why public housing should be for all.

/A paper issue of the magazine sent by post, English translation of the article is in Social Housings Essays book/

In the article, Zuzanna Mielczarek discusses the issue of the exclusion in housing, analyzing phenomena as poor (shanty) houses, slum porn, fetishization of poverty; national and municipal housing policies in Poland; rights of Polish tenants; middle-class discrimination in the housing market; French and Belgian public housing policies. Long live normality! - Zuzanna Mielczarek and Zofia Piotrowska, published in Architektura&Biznes, 03/2019 /7.500 readers

©Kuba Rodziewicz

/A paper issue of the magazine sent by post, English translation of the article is in Social Housings Essays book/

©Kuba Rodziewicz

On the success of ordinariness in the Dutch housing architecture. What is the normal in residential architecture? On the hand, it could mean standardization, prefabrication and cost-effectiveness. On the other, it means the type of architecture that is non-peculiar, friendly and in accord with our every-day habits. The success of Dutch housing developments at the turn of the 20th and 21st century is based on

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whole development lifecycle? And what is a model social mix? In the article, we analyze and describe different types of social and functional mix in housing projects. We discuss Dutch, Danish and Polish model of social mix. The article includes a presentation of Warsaw Social District as a project implementing the idea of social mix.

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the ordinariness as conceived this way. In the article, we analyze Dutch case study housing complexes - GWL Terrein, Stadstuinen, Funenpark, Ijburg (including Vrijbrucht), Le Medi, Justus van Effen complex to present good spatial and social practices, proving that good residential architecture can be distinguished by a certain ‘ordinariness’. We discuss specific Dutch spatial/social phenomena as gallery housing or de Stoep. We elaborate on the history of Dutch housing - de Woningwet, woningcorporaties etc.

Mix to the max - Zuzanna Mielczarek and Zofia Piotrowska, published in Architektura & Biznes 05/2019 /7.500 readers

Social mix is what, among others, guarantees a diverse and sustained community in a given housing development. Both the state, investors and architects should make sure that the developments they design and build are socially sustainable. You should ensure the social mix from the beginning of an investment process. But how to maintain it during the

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©Kuba Rodziewicz

/A paper issue of the magazine sent by post, English translation of the article is in Social Housings Essays book/

III. SCHEDULE - GENERAL

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7.10.2019 start of Social Housings research project

1-4.02.2018 Amsterdam+Rotterdam study trip to the Netherlands Polish experts+Dutch researchers and core-team as hosts international workshop site visits

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09-10.2018 BBGK architects wins the municipal tender for the WDS masterplan

22.03.2019 presentation of the WDS masterplan to the public: Zodiak Architectural Pavillion in Warsaw

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9-10.2019 self-publishing: publication of Social Housings Glossary, Social Housings Essays and On the social photozine

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III. SCHEDULE - DETAILED

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DATA ANALYSIS RECOMMENDATIONS FORMULATION 1-4.02.2018 Amsterdam+Rotterdam study trip to the Netherlands Polish experts+Dutch researchers and core-team as hosts international workshop site visits

3.11.2017 Warsaw Consultations/ discussion with Warsaw Social District team

12.2017-04.2018 Amsterdam+Rotterdam site visits - core-team photography+inteviews: (GWL Terrein, Ijburg, Le Medi, Stadstuinen, Justus van Effen...) 13-14.11.2017 Paris - visit in Clichy-Batignolles district: international reference and workshop with Warsaw Social District team 17.11.2017 Rotterdam Paul Elleswijk Stichting Havensteder meeting with the expert

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MASTERPLAN DESIGN PHASE

SITE RESEARCH+STUDY TRIPS

3.11.2017 Amsterdam Failed Architeture: Rene de Boer - meeting with the expert GWL terrain:

May

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DISCUSSIONS+WORKSHOPS

27.10.2017 Rotterdam Amateur Cities: Ania Moleda -meeting with the expert, schedule and objectives discussion

April

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INTERVIEWS

7.10.2017 SH research project start

March

09-10.2018 BBGK architects wins the municipal tender for the WDS masterplan (with SH guidelines)

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PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

PROJECT IMPROVEMENT

PUBLIC WORKSHOPS

22.03.2019 WDS masterplan presentation to the public: Zodiak Architectural Pavillion in Warsaw

10.2019 publication: improved final WDS report

6.04.2019 WDS public consultations -Wola Community Center

PUBLICATIONS IN THE MAGAZINES SELF-PUBLISHING: CONTENT+GRAPHIC DESIGN PUBLICATION

1-4.03.2018 Warsaw study trip to Poland core-team+Polish experts work on publications with Polish experts and magazines

11.01.2018 Preliminary recommendations for Warsaw Social District

7.09.2019 SH publication Archined.nl Socializing Social Housing

06.2019 SH publication Kwartalnik Rzut Poor houses 05.2019 SH publication Architektura&Biznes Mix to the max

8-10.2019 SH self-publishing: publication launch of Social Housings Glossary, Social Housings Essays and On the social photozine

03.2019 SH publication Architektura&Biznes Long live normality! SCHEDULE

IV. FEEDBACK Content feedback + future development

We can see that thanks to our input, references and recommendations for the WDS project were much more international and Dutch housing was especially present in the project. What we would add to our research, given more time, is the value in affordable and fast construction, which is also very specific for Dutch housing.

The research on diversity in social housing models and other housing programs proved to be very informative for the Warsaw Social District project. It influenced guidelines set for the project and helped providing many references and design solutions recommended to be used in the project. There are some important topics that were overlooked and after public discussions were developed and reviewed in the final version of the master plan document. This was mainly the issue of accessibility for those with limited mobility - not of the public space, but of the apartment units. This topic is especially relevant in public housing which is directed to discriminated groups and should also aim at pushing for better living standandards. Nevertheless, in the most part presentations of the projects were educating the public - showing what objectives are important in building liveable environment and how they can be realised. It was important that we managed to have several presentations for different groups - city officials, professionals and inhabitants. We closely cooperated with actors responsible for providing housing in Warsaw - different bureaus of the municipality. The research has been done strictly for the WDS project, but it was also used by the experts working on other housing projects - Osiedla Warszawy (Housing estates of Warsaw a program developed by the Planning Bureau) or Mieszkanie Plus (Housing Plus, a governmental housing program). As we mentioned, WDS is a model that can be used also for other locations or cases. Even though, for now WDS is suspended, we in our professional careers are developing many other projects, which are based on similar objectives. We can imagine starting a research project with experienced bodies directly connected to the topic of social housing, as the Advisory Committee suggested. This would probably be housing providers such as PFRN (investor of Mieszkanie Plus governmental program), TBS (housing associations) and Housing Policy Department, as well as NGOs such as Habitat for Humanity Poland and closer cooperation with an umbrella organization for non-profit housing Housing Europe. We did interview or had discussions with people from all of those institutions, but much closer cooperation would definitely be valuable. FEEDBACK

Attachments Index I. Warsaw Social District - masterplan concept booklet (in Polish): PDF link + paper https://issuu.com/social.housings/docs/wds_masterplan_bbgk II. Social Housings Glossary: PDF link + paper https://issuu.com/social.housings/docs/social_housings_glossary III. Social Housings Essays: PDF link + paper https://issuu.com/social.housings/docs/social_housings_essays IV. On the social photozine: PDF link + paper https://issuu.com/social.housings/docs/on_the_social_photo_zine V. Archined.nl: Socializing Social Housing: link https://www.archined.nl/2018/09/socializing-social-housing/ VI. Architektura&Biznes: Long live normality! (p. 32) (in Polish): paper VII. Architektura&Biznes: Mix to the max (p. 36) (in Polish): paper VIII. Kwartalnik Rzut: Poor houses (p. 15) (in Polish): paper