“Gropyus’s ambition is to really ease the problem of access to affordable and sustainable housing at scale. The more companies and the more parties involved in trying to accomplish that, the stronger European countries and the European Union will be.”
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Emilio Sassine
Co-founder, Cedrus, France
“If housing is regarded as the highest level of financial risk, then we have a real problem.”
Joël Schons
Head of the working group on housing at FIEC, the European construction industry federation
How to finance sustainable housing
With a housing crisis affecting countries across Europe, it's clear that affordable, sustainable housing is urgently needed. But if construction companies can't get financing to build, where is that crucial housing going to come from? Here's a look at the financial tools that might open the market up and give us a chance to fix the problem.
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