Migration and housing: meeting refugees’ housing needs through collaborative housing program (MICOLL)
A JPI Urban Europe– and ESRC-funded investigation (2021-22) into the potential and constraints of collaborative housing for the sustainable integration of refugees, generating evidence-based recommendations for urban policy and practice in the UK context.
MICOLL Project Website
VIDEO SERIES: Seven recorded conversations between the UK PI Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia and collaborative housing groups, residents and professionals that are actively engaged with the question of migration, refugees and diversity in their everyday housing life and/or work.
POLICY AGENDA: A cross-country transition agenda for innovative collaborative housing with refugees, addressing institutional frameworks for housing and urban development, capacity building for collaborative housing, and the improvement and scaling-up of collaborative housing models. It also highlights challenges and proposes actionable steps to overcome barriers to collaborative housing with refugees and other vulnerable groups.
UK FINAL EVENT: This half-day event was designed to encourage exchange amongst relevant stakeholders at the Collaborative Housing (CH)*Migration nexus, and to collectively identify key policy dimensions or actions for accessible CH, with attention to migrants and refugees. A workshop sought to understand how there could be better linkages between the refugee housing sector (broadly understood) and the collaborative housing one.