About Eurhonet

Eurhonet – the European Housing Network – is a network of 34 public and social housing providers committed to delivering excellent services.

Our mission

Our mission is to promote learning and development to better serve our tenants, neighbourhoods, and society. We collaborate, learn from each other, and develop new ideas together.

Eurhonet’s work centres around the needs of our tenants and the professional development of our employees. Eurhonet currently has members from Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. We all have the same ambition: to improve our professional performance by sharing best practices, developing our skills, and creating a common view of excellence in the public and social housing sector.

34
members
6
Countries
4
Topic Groups
1,600,000
tenants
800,000
homes
13,500
employees

Eurohonet – the European Housing Network – stands on three pillars:

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Sharing what we do well
Learning and improving together
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Growing our skills
Developing to respond to our business environment
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Advocating and resourcing
Raising our profile to achieve our goals

Our key activities

Providing excellent services for our tenants, communities, and society

We help our member organisations to improve their professional performance, processes, and working methods. This includes:

Prioritising the wellbeing and professional development of employees

We support our members to invest in their staff, attract talented employees to the sector, and enhance existing staff training and development opportunities.

Collaboration with Housing Europe

We feed the experiences of our members gathered via our working groups and national and regional dialogue into the policy formulation process of Housing Europe, our sector’s representative body at EU and International level.

Why a European perspective?

We believe it is crucial to look beyond national borders when striving for excellence in our sector.

The European perspective allows us to benchmark our practices against a much broader set of standards. By examining different frameworks, we can scrutinise our own practices, identify areas for improvement, and showcase outstanding initiatives.

Often, all we need is to step back and change perspective. By understanding the challenges and successes of our counterparts in other countries, we can achieve a more nuanced approach to problem-solving. Learning from a wide variety of experiences help us to better respond to, respect, and reflect the diverse needs of our communities.

Climate change, affordability, social exclusion, demographic change… The challenges we face don’t stop at borders. Sharing best practice, resources and expertise can help us to build joint initiatives and avoid working in isolation.

Excellent knowledge should be shared. Working together, we can do more for our tenants and neighbourhoods.

Become a member
Housing the future, together!
All European public and social housing providers are eligible to apply for Eurhonet membership. We are always pleased to welcome forward-looking organisations with a desire to improve their practices, provide excellent services to tenants, and create a positive working environment. Does this sound like your organisation?

More about Eurhonet – the European Housing Network

Our Team

Learn more about the dedicated team behind Eurhonet.

Our Topics

Find out more about how we develop and share best practice.

Staff development

See the opportunities available to develop your skills and experience.

*Eurhonet’s key figures do not include our founding member DELPHIS, which is an association of social housing providers in France.