This European Commission expert meeting will examine a financing barrier facing housing cooperatives and associations: projects may be too small to meet financial institutions’ lending thresholds, while limited balance sheets can make larger-scale funding difficult to obtain. The workshop is intended to consider ways to help these organisations access finance for affordable housing across Europe.2
The discussion will focus on aggregation and financial intermediation models, including potential access to funding from the European Investment Bank, the Council of Europe Development Bank and national promotional banks, with support from InvestEU and fi-compass. Participants are expected to draw on pilot-region experience to discuss scalable approaches, legal recourse frameworks and stronger engagement by international and national promotional financial institutions with the cooperative housing sector.2
The stated audience includes European Commission services, the two development banks, national promotional and commercial banks, cooperative housing federations and representatives of pilot regions.2 The event is listed by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Energy.3 It is scheduled at the Centre de Conférences Albert Borschette in Brussels, Belgium, and will be conducted in English; registered participants will also receive a link to a web stream.2
No founding date or individual speakers are specified in the available event information.2