Darinka Czischke is a specialist in housing policies, urban social inclusion and social/affordable housing. She is a sociologist and holds an MSc in Regional and Urban Planning (Distinction) from the London School of Economics and Political Science. After heading the European Social Housing Observatory at CECODHAS for six years, Ms. Czischke has recently joined Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands), where she carries out a PhD on social enterprise in housing organizations in North- Western Europe. Her past experience includes policy-orientated research on urban, social and environmental issues at the LSE Cities Programme, the LSE/ESRC Research Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, the Greater London Authority, the Pontificia Universidad Católica and the Environmental Planning and Research Centre (CIPMA) in Santiago, Chile. She is also a consultant on housing and urban regeneration for the European Union’s URBACT programme. She has published extensively on social housing policies in EU member states; interactions between EU regulations and housing; the role of social housing for social cohesion and for the integration of immigrants and the management of social housing.
Ms. Czischke has collaborated as expert with several European institutions (European Commission, Council of Europe, UNECE) and is a joint co-ordinator of the working group ‘Social Housing: Institutions, Organisations and Governance’ at the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR).
