ABSTRACT
The financial crisis in recent years has exposed vulnerabilities of different social housing systems, pointing to the need to build resilience through better policy tools and sustainable provision of social housing. The chapter explores a vital area for social planning policy through a new theoretical lens related to resilience of complex adaptive systems. Insights from research in Vienna, Amsterdam and Copenhagen illustrate patterns of resilience in institutional, economic, social and environmental terms. The findings indicate that resilience is attributed to the robustness and resourcefulness of social housing institutions, but also to sustained and more coherent policy intervention in the post-crisis period. The findings are particularly relevant to cities looking at rebuilding their affordable housing in the post-pandemic period to address the multiple challenges of a public health and economic crisis.
