The Arena Housing Project is flying

The Arena Housing Project has recently experienced some of its busiest weeks as it has launched more tools and resources for journalists and researchers working on housing across Europe. We have welcomed Jelena Prtorić as a Community Coordinator at Arena, and it’s in a big part thanks to hear that you can now follow the … Read more

The coronavirus fuels journalistic collaborations

The coronavirus has given new aspects to the Arena Housing Project and the collaboration in the network – and at the same time, new problems arise in the housing field because of the virus.

The Arena Housing Project is a result of the Dataharvest 2019 conference, where many sessions focused on the housing crisis in Europe.

One of Arena’s main goals is to inspire, create and coordinate networks to promote and facilitate cross-border collaborative journalism. The present crisis has made even clearer how important collaborative journalism is when we want to research and report on complex issues that don’t care about borders. The Housing Network now has 176 persons affiliated – mainly journalists, but also housing experts from academia, activists and others.

We build resources together – shared databases and interactive map

Everybody was told to stay home to prevent the spread of the virus. But what about those who don’t have a home? The homeless population is vulnerable even at the best of times, and they are especially at risk during the Covid-19 pandemic because they have little access to hygiene, and many have bad health.

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COVID-19 pushes flats from Airbnb to the long-term rental market

This week, the Arena Housing Project published its first piece of curation journalism. The text gives an overview of how Airbnb investors are moving their flats to the long-term rental market – and lets you take the next step in the research and reporting.

As the global pandemic of COVID-19 has brought tourism and travelling to a halt, nice-looking flats that previously were only offered at daily rates on platforms like Airbnb have been appearing as long-term rentals in cities across Europe.

Housing watchers, however, assume those flats will go back to the tourism market as soon as people can travel again.

For critics of tourist rental platforms, this is further proof that the likes of Airbnb are turning housing into an investment object: when homes become a financial asset to exploit for profit rather than a public good

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Dataharvest and the coronavirus

The flagship activity of Arena for Journalism in Europe is arranging Dataharvest – the European Investigative Journalism Conference.

Today, it is two months and two days until the conference is set to open. Right now, more and more countries in Europe are introducing measures to limit the spread of the coronavirus.

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Join the Arena Housing Mailing List!

  • Arena for Journalism in Europe launches a mailing list to start building the Arena Housing Project
  • The Arena Housing Project will be an open networking infrastructure to connect journalists working on housing across Europe
  • The Arena Housing Project will also serve as a template for other open cross-border and collaborative research and reporting networks

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Welcome to Arena for Journalism in Europe

The news:  In January 2019 Arena for Journalism in Europe was founded as a ‘Stichting’ under Dutch law. It’s main activity will be to continue the EIJC & Dataharvest Conference, which has left the protective wings of Journalismfund.eu and is now organized by Arena.

The background: The EIJC & Dataharvest Conference is the European Conference for Data and Investigative Journalism. It has

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The Power of Publication

Rethinking the European infrastructure for journalism in a networked society – or why we set up an open Arena for Journalism in Europe

When journalists publish the same story simultaneously in three, ten or forty countries, public attention is secured; they make a big splash. It is the power of publication. Notably the power of publication adapted to the era of networked societies.

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