Financing Social and Affordable Housing in Europe: the CEB's Approach

Explore the Council of Europe Development Bank's (CEB) approach to financing social and affordable housing in Europe in this working paper.

This study provides an overview of the Bank's activities in housing finance, assessing recent trends in housing needs and considering how these will shape the demand for social and affordable housing and its financing.

Discover the CEB's long-standing experience in financing social housing projects and the scale and scope of the new demand for social and affordable housing, as well as emerging housing financing schemes and actors. This paper covers countries such as Belgium, Germany, France, and Ireland.