We are back after quite a while indeed- sorry  for the gap. We hope you missed us, we certainly did. And here we are,  reaching out to you again from Brussels with an episode dedicated to an  issue everyone in Europe has been talking about over the last years.  Migration. The refugee crisis, the action plan, the integration process…  These are just a few of the keywords that have been coming up again and  again in the news. We will try to make the link with the place that is  the key for the migration challenge in Europe and that is… housing.

Part of today’s fifth episode will be brought  to you from the European Parliament where the final event of the  Designing Inclusion Erasmus Plus project was held on October 18th. We  will be hearing from the people behind it, especially the academic staff  from the KU Leuven what are the project’s main findings. How does one  city produce inclusive urban spaces? We will also meet the Italian,  Socialist MEP Brando Benifei who has been the Rapporteur of the European  Parliament Report on 'Refugees: social inclusion and integration into  the labour market'. What is the policymakers’ view on the issue?

In the second part of today’s show we will  ask Housing Europe’s Research Assistant, Mariel Whelan to give us an  overview of the key findings of the latest briefing produced by the  European Federation of Public, Cooperative and Social Housing entitled  ‘Pathways to Social Inclusion’. Finally, Fleur Eymann, Responsible for  PR and Communications at Startblok Riekerhaven, the project everyone is  talking about when referring to successful case studies of inclusive  housing projects explains how they manage to co-house in harmony Dutch  students and young migrants who have been granted asylum in the country.