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.

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

Sharing what we do well

Learning and improving together

Growing our skills

Developing to respond to our business environment

Advocating and resourcing

Raising our profile to achieve our goals

Our key activities

Why a European perspective?

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

Elevating standards

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.

“Together, we are an invaluable resource, utilising each other’s experience and knowledge of various issues related to human living.” – Cathrine Holgersson, Gavlegårdarna, Sweden

Zooming out on our challenges

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.

“We joined Eurhonet with the desire to gain insights about working realities that are radically different from ours. To learn about new, more dynamic, and effective procedures to address the real needs that we face every day.” – Lorenzo Roggi, Arezzo Casa Spa, Italy

Transnational cooperation

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.

“Far from closing ourselves off from others, our vision is of an open, optimistic world that believes in humanity. Eurhonet showed me that whatever the country, we face the same questions and that sometimes our neighbours had already found the solution I was looking for.” – Fabrice Barbe, Vosgelis, France

Collective impact

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

“Poplar HARCA has always valued strong and enduring partnerships with like-minded people and organisations. Being part of a European network supports our ambitions and help us achieve so much more than we could alone. Eurhonet has enabled us to connect with many organisations and opened up valuable learning opportunities for our staff, which ultimately benefits our residents.” – Steve Stride, Poplar HARCA, UK

More about Eurhonet – the European Housing Network

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