We organise our actions in six thematic & strategic agendas:
Strategic Agendas:
Bio-economy
Circular Construction
Chemicals/Plastics
Manufacturing Industry
Food Chain
Water Cycles
Seven leverages provide additional support:
Leverage effects:
Lever Policy Instruments
Lever Circular Procurement
Lever Communication
Lever Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Lever Financing
Lever Jobs & Skills
Lever Research
What, why and how?
Why are we pursuing a circular economy?
Future visions 2050
How do we see our circular future?
About our management
Who steers what at Flanders Circular?
The Living Lab Hybrid Housing combines the advantages of renting and buying in a new kind of housing cooperative. To realise this project, VITO is working together with housing initiatives from citizens, developers, contractors, architects and local authorities.
The current housing supply does not match the changing needs in our society. The affordability of housing is under pressure and there is a growing scarcity of space and materials. Traditional housing models are often intended (partly) as investments and ignore the social added value.
A hybrid housing concept between renting and buying can offer a solution. Residents become co-owners of the buildings and thus have the advantages they would also have when buying a home: housing security, control, clarity about their housing costs and an opportunity to build up capital. At the same time, they have the freedom of renting, as they decide themselves to sell shares and leave the cooperative. Moreover, hybrid living relieves them of the legal, organisational and technical issues involved in building and managing a building.
Housing cooperatives are a well-known example of this hybrid living and have meanwhile claimed their place in many EU countries. Despite positive signals from ( upper) local authorities, this is not yet the case in Belgium. The aim of the do-and-learn project in the Living Lab Hybrid Living is to definitively introduce this hybrid housing concept into the Flemish housing landscape, coupled with change-oriented construction in order to maximise circularity.
VITO
Partners Endeavour, Autonoom gemeentebedrijf voor vastgoedbeheer en stadsprojecten VESPA, Groep Van Roey, Archipelago Leuven, Igemo, Abbeyfield Vlaanderen, Deloitte Legal-Lawyers, Stad Gent, Wooncoop, Symbiosis, Trividend - Vlaamse Participatiefonds voor de social
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