Why should you apply?
The Awards winners and finalists set an example of how homes and neighbourhoods can be sustainable, affordable, beautiful and bring people together all at once. Winning projects include successfully engaging tenants in decisions, ensuring proximity to services and jobs, offering information, and training, and ensuring long-term affordability and security. The Awards offer well-deserved recognition for going the extra mile, it represents an occasion to network with like-minded practitioners and experts, and it gives the opportunity to advocate in the name of the public, cooperative, social and affordable sector for more action to be taken. The value of the Awards also stems from the fact that the Jury is mainly composed of representatives of tenants’ unions from across Europe.
About us
The Categories of the Awards will be based on the Code of Conduct
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Management excellence for housing affordability
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"More than a roof" – supporting communities of equal opportunities
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Agents of green transition, leaders of innovation
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Building strategic alliances, fostering community participation
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Empowering the team, fairness, and diversity at work
The 2025 edition includes a special prize.
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Going the extra mile for safe and sound living
2025 Edition
The European Responsible Housing Awards are an initiative powered by Housing Europe, the International Union of Tenants (IUT), and DELPHIS. The Awards kicked off back in 2014 with the idea of embedding CSR in the social housing sector, through awareness-raising, transfer of knowledge and tools and stakeholder dialogue at European level.
The final ceremony of the European Responsible Housing Awards 2022 took place in Helsinki (Finland) on 16 June, during the International Social Housing Festival. Finalists and winners joined us to celebrate this festive moment.
While waiting for the next edition in Dublin, 4-6 June 2025, we invite you to have a look at the 23 amazing shortlisted projects!
The cornerstone
of the Awards
The European Responsible Housing CSR Code of Conduct
The CSR Code of Conduct guides and commits Responsible Housing providers to integrate Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) principles into their business strategy and translate them into concrete practices. This commitment shall be monitored on a regular basis and in cooperation with the ERHIN partners.
The European Responsible Housing Declaration
Affordable housing providers agree on clear principles for long term investment in building construction and renovation, neighborhoods, human resources, and fair relations with stakeholders, notably the tenants. Through the European Responsible Housing Declaration, housing stakeholders call for the development of CSR in public, cooperative and social housing.
The European Responsible Housing Roadmap
Housing federations can play a significant role in developing CSR, helping their members implement its principles. This Roadmap sets out a framework of the sector’s challenges and stakeholders, based on a shared understanding of CSR. It then identifies key priorities as well as examples of actions that can be taken by federations at regional, national or European level.
2014 Edition
More than 70 projects competed and 25 were shortlisted in the first ever edition of the European Responsible Housing Awards
2016 edition
62 innovative ideas from 9 European countries were submitted in the 2nd edition of the Awards, while the Ceremony was held at the European Commitee of the Regions.
2019 edition
The 3rd edition of the Responsible Housing Awards saw a record-breaking number of 87 submissions across five categories from 16 countries. The ceremony was part of the International Social Housing Festival in Lyon.
2022 edition
More than 180 social and affordable housing providers, representatives of tenant organisations, policymakers, and academics celebrated the 2022 European Responsible Housing Awards ceremony that took place on the 17th of June in Helsinki during the International Social Housing Festival (ISHF).
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