Dr. Héctor Simón has published the article “The regulation of reverse mortgages as a source of income in retirement: policy options and legal drivers” in the Journal of Housing and the Built Environment (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10901-019-09653-3), which analyzes policy options to encourage the contracting of reverse mortgages from a legal perspective. A full-text view-only version of the paper is available at https://rdcu.be/bpdP7.
Prof. Dr. Sergio Nasarre is a Jury member of the Debate League.
http://diaridigital.urv.cat/lequip-josef-ajframers-guanyador-de-la-lliga-de-debat-universitari-2019/
Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles
Andrés Labella, Diari de Tarragona, 10/03/2019
Prof. Nasarre was invited as a speaker in the collaborative economy research group of the Open University of Catalonia, where he gave the conference “Lights and shadows of the collaborative economy”. During the intervention, an interesting interdisciplinary debate was generated among all the researchers and assistant professors. 07/03/2019
Dr. Héctor Simón attended the seminar on “Promoting the Right to Housing at the EU Level: Challenges and Policy Proposals”, organized by the Barcelona Center for International Affairs (CIDOB), in which the “Municipalist Declaration of Local Governments for the Right to Housing and the Right to the City” was discussed. This Declaration calls for a more relevant role of cities and municipalities to guarantee the right to housing and the right to the city.
On March 4th, Dr. Nasarre was invited to the dinner at the Rotary Club in Tarragona where he presented the paper “What do we do about housing?”, which was followed by interesting questions and an intense debate.
Closing ceremony of the del Advanced course for real estate agents and property management (02/03/2019)
Prof. Dr. Nasarre’s talk on Collaborative Housing and Blockchain at the conference organised by the Regional Deanery of Registrars (Decanato autonómico de los Registradores). Barcelona, 28/02/2019.
Predoctoral seminar today with PhD candidates at the Unesco Housing Chair where they presented their progress on housing research
