DASH presentation at ‘Lá Fora’ cycle of Domus Social

By Els Keunen

In September, Domus Social organised a session of ‘Lá Fora’, a series of exchange sessions for staff members, in which they invited DASH participant Els Keunen from the University of Stuttgart to give a presentation about social housing in Germany.

Els was in Portugal for an extended DASH secondment in preparation for the training school in Porto and Gaia at the end of October. For ‘Lá Fora’, she prepared a presentation entitled  ‘Between neoliberal and welfare state ideologies: social housing in Germany’, in which she elaborated on the historical development of social housing in Germany, the social housing system, current challenges exacerbating the housing crisis, and how Tübingen is making efforts to counteract current tendencies. Domus Social staff members Sara Neves and Olga Feio also contributed by sharing their experiences from their secondment in Germany during the DASH Thematic Workshop in May. Altogether, it was a lively session in which the attendees asked many questions and discussed similarities and differences between the Portuguese system and the situation in Porto.