II International Congress on Housing and City

The UAB professor and co-director of the Barcelona Chair of Housing Studies is involved in organising the congress, which will take place on 23 and 24 November in Barcelona.

The Barcelona Chair of Housing Studies is organising the II International Congress on Housing and City, to be held at the UPF Auditorium, Carrer de Balmes, 134, Barcelona. The event will bring together academics, representatives of public administrations and professionals to analyse the main challenges facing housing and their implications for urban life.

Judith Gifreu i Font, professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and co-director of the Chair, is a member of the congress’s steering committee and is involved in its organisation. She will also chair the sessions “Ombudsmen and the right to housing” and “Housing and ageing”, scheduled for Tuesday 24 November.

The programme will address urban transformation and neighbourhood regeneration, demographic dynamics and the residential market, governance and public policy, the structure of property ownership, and the relationship between housing and health. Other topics for discussion will be legal innovation, territorial inequalities, gentrification, homelessness, taxation and cooperative housing models.

The congress is jointly directed by Montserrat Pareja Eastaway and Juli Ponce Solé, of the Universitat de Barcelona; David Hernández Falagán, of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; and Josep Ferrer Riba, of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Wellington Migliari is the coordinator.

Registration is open until 20 November or until capacity is reached. For further information, please contact with info@cbeh.cat.