REP Research Seminar - Presenting in person - Franziska Sielker, Professor of Urban and Regional Research at TU Wien Title: "House for All: Access to Affordable and Quality Housing for All People"

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Biography

Franziska is Head of the Urban and Regional Research Research Unit and Professor of Urban and Regional Research at the Faculty of Spatial Planning and Architecture, TU Wien since April 2022. Prior to this, she was Assistant Professor of Planning and Housing at the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge from 2019 to 2022 and Deputy Professor of International Planning Studies at TU Dortmund University from 2018 to 2019. She was also a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge from 2017 to 2018. Since 2011, her research has focused on developments in the Danube region, questions of European spatial development and governance.

Abstract

Franziska will present data from a ESPON funded, Europe wide 'web-scraping' of house price data, collected for the 'House4All' project. House4All aims to provide a comprehensive and comparative overview of how housing policies are delivered across the ESPON territory and develop a comprehensive definition of housing affordability at the EU level, taking into account a broad range of indicators and the diversity of European territories and their specificities. This includes mapping public policies on housing quality and affordability. More information about the project can be found at: https://www.espon.eu/projects/access-affordable-and-quality-housing-all-people-house4all