Projects – Oldal 7

Title: Anti-segregation action plan developed for the municipality of district 21 of Budapest (Csepel)

Client: Municipality of Budapest Csepel

Period: 11/2008 – 05/2009

The municipality of Budapest Csepel (district 21) has prepared its Urban Development Plan by May 2008, in which the anti-segregation strategic plan of the district was included. The municipality wanted to turn this strategic plan into an action plan basing on detailed analysis of the potentially segregated neighbourhoods of the district.

MRI has carried out a detailed data set analysis (by breaking the municipal data into small neighbourhoods) and also made several interviews in the segregated areas and also interviews with the institutional actors.

The suggestions based on the analysis of the current situation are partly focused on each of the 4 segregated neighbourhoods (suggesting complete or partial demolition or slight development of the infrastructure, territorial concentration of social care services). The suggestions were also grouped to thematic topics like desegregation of education, cooperative model of social services, predictable public housing policy.)

Documents:

Study on Sustainable Regeneration in Suburbs (synthesis report)

Origins of security and insecurity: the interplay of housing systems with jobs, household structures, finance and social security

Client: EC (FP6-CITIZENS)

Project coordinator: University of Birmingham

Duration: April 2004 – December 2006

The starting points of this project was the restructuring of social rights across Europe, shifting the the meaning of citizenship. Housing has become an important site in which European households experience this restructuring. One consequence is the creation of new patterns of security and insecurity.

These patterns are themselves the result of the complex interplay of a number of elements including systems of housing provision with labour markets and job opportunities, the opportunities to access finance and systems of social support, combined with the strategies adopted by individuals. From the point of view of member states, or even the EU as a whole, outcomes that favour individuals do not necessarily favour society at large.

The project focused on security and insecurity within home ownership, and their wider implications. It’s two main objectives were to analyse the factors impacting upon individual households and their positions as home owners. Secondly, it established how households perceive the patterns of security and insecurity, advantage and disadvantage associated with different housing positions. It investigated how these perceptions mould personal (household) strategies with respect to housing, jobs, family size, education and pensions. Moreover, it assessed how these positions have provided households with material security and insecurity.

The project was built upon multilevel research in a range of European countries. It combined quantitative and qualitative analysis. The former used both macro (countrywide) and micro (household) data. Qualitative studies were based on household interviews. The identification of policy-relevant analysis and conclusions was emphatic throughout OSIS.

MRI was member of the OSIS consortium, contributing to both micro level research and macro level analysis, with a particular emphasis on processes in Central and Eastern European transition countries.