Metropolitan Research Institute
Metropolitan Research Institute, Budapest
The construction of From Street to Home Association’s first two mobile homes is well under way – the work began on 30 March. The two mobile homes were delivered by truck to the building site in Soroksár, District 23 of Budapest. The Association’s colleagues, together with beneficiaries, professionals and volunteers have been working on connecting the units to the utility grids, and began installing insulation. A small selection of photos is published on the HomeLab website.
Hanna Szemző and Andrea Tönkő presented OpenHeritage H2020 project, set to start in June 2018, on 20 March at the “Cultural Heritage, Social Cohesion and Place Attachment” workshop organised by the Institute of Sociology, Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Science.
The dialogue process “We Make Europe: Cities and City Makers enhancing the (Im)Pact of Amsterdam” took place in Amsterdam’s FabCity in May 2016. The moderator of the working group discussing in detail the Urban Poverty Partnership was Iván Tosics, managing director of Metropolitan Research Institute.
József Hegedüs participated in a project meeting between 5-8 April 2016 in Brunico-Bruneck for RESHAPE – Redesigning Social Housing Against Poverty in Europe, a comparative project focusing on social housing in Southern Europe, with the aim to produce applied knowledge for a variety of housing regimes. The meeting was a follow-up to last year’s kick-off in Bolzano.
The latest issues of the European Journal of Homelessness, with a contribution from MRI staff (p. 41-68), is available online from 10 December 2014.