Karin Ramser, Director of the City of Vienna’s Community Housing (Wiener Wohnen) talks about Vienna's history of social and public housing (Gemeindebau) and how it's seen as a social good, and an integral part of the city's approach to creating a just, equitable and peaceful community.
Read MoreHugh Brennan runs O Cualann Cohousing Alliance and builds affordable houses in an innovative way, producing high quality homes for people who buy at affordable levels to their income using a cooperative model. Producer Helen Shaw met Hugh at his latest project in Baile na Laochra, Poppintree, Ballymun and got an insight into how it works. Visit the project here www.ocualann.ie/poppintree.html. The development is side by side with both 100% private and social housing in an area close to IKEA off the M50.
Read MoreDr Ruth McManus, urban geographer DCU, takes Helen Shaw on a walk through Drumcondra and its social housing, between Griffith Park and Home Farm Road, built between 1920s -60s, creating a social village from the library at the park to Corpus Christi Church and primary school on Home Farm Road.
Read MoreDr Joe Brady is an urban geographer at UCD with a passion for cities, particularly hometown Dublin City, and he is an expert in the history of housing in Dublin. Producer Helen Shaw took Joe back to Marino, not far from where he grew up, and where her grandparents moved, from the Dublin tenements in 1932. How could Dublin City Council build a mini garden city of social housing in the 20s and 30s and why is Dublin struggling to meet its housing challenge today?
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