The future of housing and mobility Sat, May 31st, 2025

In this event, we will discuss topics related to the housing crisis on the European and the local level and its relation to mobility infrastructure.

You can join the event in-person in Lille in France or join online via the Volt Europa channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELuJhdSzqgE

IMPORTANT: Please note that by signing up for the in-person event, you are agreeing to be filmed and appear on camera as part of the online broadcast.

In the first hour there are 2 presentations with Q/A and a short panel. The presentations of the first hour will be in English, but will be translated to French on the spot. The first speaker is Bram Vandeninden and the second speaker is Simon Dahy.

Bram Vandeninden is finalising a PhD on the topic of burden of disease and environmental health inequalities related to urban and transport planning and was co-leading the Dutch-speaking candidate list for Volt Belgium for the European Parliament elections. Bram will give an update on European developments regarding mobility and will talk about the need to take mobility infrastructure considerations when building new houses.

Simon Dahy is co-policy lead of Volt France and expert on housing policies, Simon we will speak about the growing inadequacy between our demographic evolutions and the current forms of housing available. He will underline the necessity of advancing toward a facilitated residential mobility, with housings’ size adapted to the different stages of our lives.

In the second hour there are 2 separate sessions. One French speaking and one English speaking:

The French speaking session will be exploring the relation between difficulties in finding housing along the mobility often required for work or studies. We will first exchange personal experiences and then try to draw out together a few policy leads to address those issues.

The English speaking session will be a hybrid and interactive workshop on setting the first steps towards an European Volt policy initiative on the domain of housing and mobility, such as writing a statement, opinion piece/op-ed or a policy roadmap initiative.

Context

This is an European thematic community event of Volt Europa. Thematic communities facilitate online policy discussion, will be a landing place for many grassroots initiatives across Europe, support policy teams on all levels of Volt with expertise and writing election programmes, and much more.

This is the fourth event of an event series with European thematic communities, to expand their European basis. Join us every month with a different European community in a different country. This month with the Tourism, Housing and Mobility Community (THoMCom) in Lille!

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