Evaluating housing and neighbourhood initiatives to improve the quality of life of deprived urban neighbourhoods and assessing their transferability across europe (NEHOM)

The HANDBOOK contains the same material as the NEHOM CD-ROM, but is structured in another way. In addition, the handbook includes two appendices that are not included on the CD-ROM: - Summary presentation of two of the NEHOM pilot studies, Reidvale estate in Glasgow and Lyderhorn Co-op in Bergen (based on report D2). - Transferability analyses in the NEHOM project including summary of the reports prepared by REV8 on Jozsefvaros in Budapest and from EKHHL on Mustamäe courtyard project in Tallinn. The Handbook aims at disseminating to the same audience as the CD-ROM, housing administrators and planners, tenant organisations and inhabitants in the relevant neighbourhoods. It presents itself for a traditional usage, but does, of course, not need to be read from page 1 to 330. The benefit of the book is that it may, with much less costs, be translated and issued in the main European languages. A French translation has already been started, but not yet finished. A similar production of CD-ROM demands months of technical production, which makes that type of product more 'singular.' More information on the NEHOM project can be found at: http://www.nhh.no/geo/NEHOM/

This report includes the scientific introduction to the NEHOM project, a presentation of three case studies that was carried out prior to the project, and studies of national housing policies in the 8 participating countries. The key innovative feature of this report is more internal than external to the project. The pilot studies stand as important on their own right, but has been used mainly to develop the methods and structure of the case studies presented in the National reports. The presentations of national housing policies were also drafts that had to be changed a lot in the national reports to elucidate the important background features in each country that was needed to understand the differences. The report thus presented an important step in the development of the project. More information on the NEHOM project can be found at: http://www.nhh.no/geo/NEHOM/

The NAS extension of NEHOM project was approved only in the end 2002 and thus the time to carry out the project work was limited to 14 months. The aim of the project was to work out a model strategy form improving social and physical conditions in a deprived inner city neighbourhood, a part of Jozsefvaros, Budapest. This is a district with a fairly large Roma population and is also typical for poor inner city environments in other large cities in former communist countries. The REV8 is a firm that carries out rehabilitation and renewal in this district and tries to keep a social profile and not to move the poor segment of the population out of the area. The main problem in the area is that those that have become flat owners have few skills and abilities to seek advice and help to rehabilitate their apartments, which are in a very bad condition. Unemployment rate is on the other hand very high, which means that available workforce exists. It just needs to get organised and get training (new skills). Another feature, typical of inner city areas, is that there are very little open space apart from the streets and youngsters have few possibilities of places to go in the afternoon for positive activities. In order to do something with this problem the project undertaken with inspiration from the NEHOM initiatives in other parts of Europe was: - Establish a forum of condominium representatives to have a channel to give information on financial and practical assistance that is possible to get for rehabilitation; - Create simple jobs for unemployed in keeping the area more tidy; - Set up internet facilities for information channels; - Opening up the sports areas of the school grounds after school hours to provide places for positive youth activities. The initiatives have been kicked off, but some have been difficult to implement. it is still too early to see what can be carried out. The report as such gives guidance to other similar areas. The dissemination of the results will be done in English and in Hungarian. More information on the NEHOM project can be found at: http://www.nhh.no/geo/NEHOM/

The Hungarian national report follows the common structure of the other national reports done in the framework of the project: The first part presents the national housing development and situation and gives the rationale for choosing the 4 case studies from Budapest. The main part presents the 4 case studies. The concluding section presents the lessons learnt from the case studies and gives reflections on their transferability. The results from the Hungarian case studies were presented at the NEHOM national conference in Budapest in 2002. The results got good press coverage. The international dissemination is done through the NEHOM CD-ROM and Handbook and the web site, but the international final NEHOM conference in Budapest October 2003 also gave a special input in Hungary and the neighbouring countries. Further work has been done in Hungary through the NAS extension project of NEHOM in collaboration with REV8 in Jozsefvaros. More information on the NEHOM project can be found at: http://www.nhh.no/geo/NEHOM/

The national report is following the common structure of all the 8 national reports: The first part gives an outline of the general and special features of the Norwegian housing policies, focusing on its development after 2nd World War and evaluates the housing policies in relation to general social policies and economic development. The second part presents the Norwegian Case studies with an introduction explaining the rationale for the choice of the case studies. The final part gives overall conclusions from the case studies on what is required to turn the tides in deprived urban areas. The report is 164 pages including 7 pages executive summary. The national report was presented at a National conference in 2002, but further dissemination of results have been done in more condensed form in CD-ROM and Handbook for the whole project. More information on the NEHOM project can be found at: http://www.nhh.no/geo/NEHOM/

The Italian national report has the following structure: The first part gives an overview of how the case studies fit with the NEHOM project included in the executive summary, which also gives a summary of the three Italian case studies. Then follows a presentation of the Italian national context. The main part presents the case studies and the final part conclusions set in a national context. The Italian report was in particular credited for its very good maps and illustrations. The Italians as well presented visual charts for ALL THE NEHOM case studies in connection with the National conference in Torino at which not only the Italian report but also a comparative analysis of the full set of NEHOM case studies were elucidated. The full dissemination of the Italian results have been done in more condensed and comparative form in the CD-ROM and Handbook for the whole project. More information on the NEHOM project can be found at: http://www.nhh.no/geo/NEHOM/

The Swedish national report follows the common structure of the other national reports done in the framework of the project: The first section, after the executive summary, presents the national context covering first the general housing situation and housing policies, then the more specific social housing policies and the neighbourhood initiatives. The second part present the three case studies after an introduction in which the rationale for choosing them and how they fit in the NEHOM context is presented. The following section presents conclusions and reflections on transferability. The Swedish case studies were both presented at local seminars in each case study area and at a NEHOM national conference. But the full dissemination of results depends on the distribution in more condensed form in CD-ROM, Handbook and through internet pages. The Swedish partner is involved in further development of the theme in new EU-financed projects and in the educational exchange programme envisaged through a Nordic Council project involving partners in Estonia, Lithuania and Norway. More information on the NEHOM project can be found at: http://www.nhh.no/geo/NEHOM/

The French national report has the following structure: The first part which should give an outline of the French national housing policy was, however not included in the primary version of the report which started with an introduction on the selection of the three French case studies. The main part presents the case studies Aigues Duoces in Port de Bouc, Kalliste and Les Flamants in Marseilles. The final part gives an evaluation of the case study results and their transferability. The national report was disseminated and discussed at the French NEHOM national conference. But the full dissemination of results depends on the distribution in more condensed form in CD-ROM and Handbook. The French Postdoc has translated 1/3 of the Handbook to French, but this work had to be terminated as the EU money was not sufficient to continue the work and financing of the printing of a French edition has not been successful so far. More information on the NEHOM project can be found at: http://www.nhh.no/geo/NEHOM/

The CD-ROM structure and text was provided by the PD group, headed by Ombretta Romice PhD, University of Strathclyde. The other members of the PD group were: Anneli Kährik (Estonia-Norway), Tamas Egedy (Hungary), Elise Henu (France). The text is based on the National reports done in the framework of the project, but critically analysed, conclusions drawn and structured in a completely new way to make the results directely useable by the practitioners. The technical production of the interactive CD-ROM was the responsibility of Gro Aase MA (University of Bergen,Norway) while Arild Holt-Jensen (University of Bergen) and the rest of the CT group, i.e. Judith Allen (Westminster), Zoltan Kovacs (Budapest) and Nicola Morrison (Cambridge) had responsibility for general control and editing. A special achievement for the CD-ROM is the glossary by which all relevant terms are explained to make differences in Europe understandable to the users (edited by Holt-Jejsen). The INTERACTIVE CD-ROM is the most important product from the NEHOM project. Its aim is to make the huge amount of material, results and recommendations readily available for the practitioners. In this sense it is a product of unique value and intended as a model for structuring initiatives, that is linking problems, actions and findings in a way that makes it possible for the user to select on the basis of problems in own area, actions relevant to such problems used in the NEHOM neighbourhoods and find the results of these actions/initiatives in the findings section. The 4 postdocs started from the national reports and each of them worked primarily with two countries, but had to also work with all national reports in assessing selected types of initiatives and related findings. Starting from the 'home' page you may choose to proceed to the 'Neighbourhood locations' and click on the country of interest, find presentation of each neighbourhood and the solutions used there or find out more about the national housing policies in the chosen country. Concepts, organisations etc. in the text that you may need an explanation on is 'clickable' and are explained in the 'glossary' that comes up in the 'support frame' on the side of the page. But you can as well go to the section 'neighbourhood problems and actions', select a problem you find relevant. One example: 'feeling of insecurity'. 'Clicking' on that there comes up a selection of 'crime preventing tools' and the case study localities where they have been used in different ways. How this has been done is explained very shortly, but the interested reader can go on to the case study and get more information. Some are also possible to get short explanation of as they in many cases are 'clickable' to the Glossary. If you are mainly interested in 'Findings' you may go directly to the 'Findings' section where there is set up a list of lessons and recommendations from the case studies. If you are specially interested in one recommendation you can click on that. One example: 'Involve the local community, professionals and investors'. 'Clicking ' on that there comes up a number of more detailed suggestions that again links up to specific case studies, which are listed. If you after having browsed through parts of the actions and findings relevant to the problems you are dealing with in your own practical work for a deprived neighbourhood and finds that you need mor information from a special case study or initiative you may go back to the case studies, look at them in more detail and if this is not sufficient there is contact adress to the people responsible for the case study area initiatives. The full understanding of the benefit and usability of the CD-ROM for further disseminiation and practical use can only be assessed by getting the CD-ROM and using it yourself. It is available on the NEHOM web-pages, but also as CD-ROM delivered from Department of Geography, University of Bergen at the price of 10 EUROs. The CD-ROM was the product presented to the audience at the NEHOM concluding conference in Budapest October 2003. We have attached no particular legal property rights to this product. It may be copied and used of as many as possible, on the only condition that it is not used comercially and as long as those persons that have worked to produce it are mentioned. The key innovative features are: Interactive product making results from project easily accessible in the form the practitional users want. More information on the NEHOM project an be found at: http://www.nhh.no/geo/NEHOM/

The German national report is in general following the common structure of all national reports, but is divided in two more distinct parts as the policy situations differ between the German Länder: The main part presents the 3 Berlin case studies within the context of the Berlin 'Soziale Stadt' programme for 'neighbourhood management'. The first part of the Berlin report presents these policies and presents the chosen case studies in this setting. The second section presents the three case studies and the final sections give a comparative conclusion and review transferability. The fourth German case study presents the Tenant Garden project in the Berliener Virtel in Monheim am Rhein, land Nordrhein-Westphalia in the setting of the housing policies in that 'Land'. The results from the German case studies were presented at the German National NEHOM conference 2002. The further dissemination is done in a more dense and comparative form through the NEHOM CD-ROM and Handbook as well as through the NEHOM web site. More information on the NEHOM project can be found at: http://www.nhh.no/geo/NEHOM/

The UK national report has the following structure: The first part gives an outline of the English housing policies, management and provisions. The national policies are evaluated in relation to problems of social exclusion. The main part presents the case studies with an introduction explaining the rationale for choosing these. The final part gives the overall conclusions from the case studies. The report including three full case study reports are on 130 pages including executive summary. The national report was disseminated on a National NEHOM conference in London in 2002, but further dissemination of results have been done in more condensed form in CD-ROM and Handbook for the whole project. More information on the NEHOM project can be found at: http://www.nhh.no/geo/NEHOM/

The report analyses transferability of initiatives aiming at improving the social and physical environment in deprived urban areas as investigated through the national reports and case studies in the NEHOM project. The conclusion is that transferability, i.e. openings and barriers in relation to import/export of initiatives from place to place in Europe in general depends on six conditions formulated in general ways as: - Institutional (governmental) background; - Policy frameworks and how initiatives fit into national programmes; - Strategy features, how roles are defined and whether local focus is on economic, physical or social regeneration; - Financial possibilities and the role of local funds; - Local neighbourhood conditions; - The relation between residents, their trust towards each other, and their willingness to cooperate with professionals and get better educated for needed tasks. The report gives a general comparison of the investigated initiatives and their transferability potentials and ends up with a comparison between NEHOM and other projects in the EU 5th framework programme. More information on the NEHOM project can be found at: http://www.nhh.no/geo/NEHOM/

The Estonian National report has the following structure: The first part after executive summary presents the Estonian national context with an overview of the social trends and problems within the housing sector. The second part starts with an introduction to the case studies in Tallinn and rationale for their selection. The main part presents the three case studies. The general conclusion presents the lessons learnt from the case studies and a final section consider their transferability. The Estonian national report has been published as a book by TTU PRESS, containing 118pp. The results from the Estonian studies were presented at the National NEHOM conference in Tallinn 2002. The international dissemination is done through the NEHOM CD-ROM and Handbook. But further work is done through the NAS extension project of Nehom in collaboration with EKHHL. More information on the NEHOM project can be found at: http://www.nhh.no/geo/NEHOM/

The NAS extension of the NEHOM project was approved only in the end of 2002 and thus the time to carry out the project work was limited to 14 months. The aim of the project was to work out a model strategy for improving the social and physical qualities of the open public spaces between panel housing blocks in large scale housing neighbourhoods, typical for large parts of the former communist countries. The EKHHL team selected a courtyard surrounded by 6 housing blocks for the project and structured a planning process with inspiration from the NEHOM case study initiatives. Interviews were carried out with inhabitants in the 4 blocks now functioning as Flat Owners Associations and the 2 co-op blocks. On the basis of the wishes from the inhabitants a draft plan for renewal of the green area was presented and discussed with the flat owners. A better communal organisation including free communal work (based on inspiration from Norwegian co-ops) were drafted. The report follows the investigation and planning process, but implementation has to follow after the end of the NEHOM project period. Once the physical improvements have been developed and the social activities are being implemented, the project will function as a model for other areas, both in Estonia and in other parts of NAS. In addition to English, to work on dissemination in the local context, the report is edited also in a Russian and Estonian. More information on the NEHOM project can be found at: http://www.nhh.no/geo/NEHOM/

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