@unpublished{theses_frw3376,
          author = {Luca Vincent Sommer},
            year = {2020},
           title = {Co-production in Housing - Unravelling the Challenges surrounding Self-building in Hamburg},
             url = {https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3376/},
        abstract = {In response to amalgamated sustainability challenges, local governments increasingly engage in new forms of state-society co-production to enhance and govern transformative change. In Europe?s crisis-afflicted housing sectors, this trend is reflected in growing numbers of public support programmes for co-housing, which contemporary sustainability discourses frame as a promising model for sustainable urban development and a potential catalyst for transformative change. But notwithstanding the optimism surrounding co-production in housing, the lived realities and perceived challenges of the actors involved still remain largely unknown. To address this knowledge gap, this study employed a single case study to unravel the perceived co-production challenges surrounding self-building in Hamburg. Hamburg has been a frontrunner in co-production in housing as it launched one of Europe?s most ambitious support programmes for self-build co-housing in 2003. The findings show that the main challenges concern (1) internal group formation \& organisation, (2) transparency, (4) empowerment and (4) financing. Based on this notion, the study proposes recommended actions to facilitate the group formation process, enhance transparency, and decentralise decision-making processes. These lessons are expected to improve the conditions for self-building in Hamburg and serve as a source of guidance for support policies for self-building in similar contexts.}
}