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Y-Foundation is
• A non-profit social housing provider
• Builds and constructs affordable rental housing
• Owns 16 404 flats in 55 cities and municipalities
• (at the beginning of 2016 we purchased 8 631 flats from another
social housing provider)
• The staff of 116 employees is mainly based in Helsinki, 20
employees in 6 other cities
• Nationwide work is enabled by a wide network of partners: local
authorities and housing companies, NGOs, church social work etc.
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History
• Y-Foundation was founded in 1985
• Founding bodies:
• Five largest cities: Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Tampere and Turku
• Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
• Finnish Red Cross
• The Finnish Association for Mental Health
• Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities
• Confederation of Finnish Construction Industries RT
• The Finnish Construction Trade Union.
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The housing options
• Scattered housing
bought form owner-
occupied housing
companies (5 300)
• Real estates: normal
rental housing (9 837)
• Supported and service
housing (1 232)
• Support and services
are arranged by local
social services or
NGOs
Suppported housing
Väinölä
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M2-Kodit (M2 Homes)
• State subsidised (ARA) rental apartments.
• ARA = The Housing Finance and Development
Centre of Finland
• 10 000 rental apartments in almost 30
municipalities around Finland.
• Can be rented through M2 customer
service or through partners.
• Former company name Y-Asunnot (Y
Apartments). Name changed in April 2016.
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M2
– The city’s most generous squares
• M2 Homes – M2 for short – wants to be a visionary
landlord by renewing the rental housing business.
• Name M2 stems from the abbreviation of the word
square meter (m2)
• M2 provides the most generous square meters in the
city, in the proximity of local services.
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What’s affordable? - Tenant’s perspective
• Pay less / lower rent
• Get more with what
you pay/ more
services and better
facilities
• Get more incomes/
housing and work
opportunities
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What’s affordable?
- Social housing landlord´s perspective
• Lower quality of housing
• Better financing /production
support
• Costs:
• Land
• Construction /materials, work
• Process
• Maintenance costs
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Making ”affordable” housing affordable
• Definition:
• You have money left for living
after rent
• 85 % of applicants: income less
than 2 500 €
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M2 Concept
• Created with Demos Helsinki
• Uuras, Inno and Koto
• Inno: ”Your home is more/bigger
than your own apartment”
• Koto: ”Home where it is easy to
come”
• Uuras: ”Best combination of home
and work”
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Uuras concept
• M2: a visionary landlord by
supporting work opportunities.
• The world’s smallest fair of new
working methods / Maailman
pienimmät uuden työn messut in
Jätkäsaari, Helsinki 31st of May
• Uuras hoffice:
• a free, temporary working space for
everybody
• Open from 24th of May until 23rd of June
at 10-18 o’clock.
• Located in Juutinraumankatu 10,
Jätkäsaari
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Uuras concept (future)
• Researches how a
landlord can be a link
between people and
changing working life
• Cleaning group
• ”Work caretaker”
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Final comments
• 16 000 tenants
• A community of practice
• Huge human potential
• - capabilities approach
(Nussbaum)
• - building resilient, sustainable
communities
• ”all-inclusive” affordable social
housing as a normal, ordinary
housing solution
• A question of human dignity
Notes de l'éditeur
Hoffice-menetelmä tulee Ruotsista. Sen alkuperäinen tarkoitus oli mennä jonkin kotiin tekemään töitä. Hoffice-menetelmässä tehdään töitä 45 min hiljaisuudessa ja 15 min voi puhua muiden kanssa, puhelimeen tai jatkaa töitä. Alemmassa kuvassa on käynnissä aamun ”esittelyt”, eli keitä on paikalla ja mitä päivän aikana on tarkoitus tehdä. Esittelykierros kuuluu myös hoffice-menetelmään.