For decades, the social housing model has been an established solution aimed at meeting the housing needs at below-market rates. However, a major shortcoming of many public housing programs is a lack of quality standards guaranteeing a decent quality of the surrounding built-up environment. This applies in particular to accessibility to diverse opportunities. Studies have shown that public housing projects tend to be located in peripheral neighborhoods with limited availability of transport infrastructure, and more specifically sustainable transport infrastructures such as public transport or cycling. Increasing the share of sustainable travel modes in urban travel is a necessity in times of climate emergency. Yet, such interventions should not come at the expense of disadvantaged members of society. Set against the background outlined above, the paper proposes an approach to the evaluation of social housing projects based on accessibility by sustainable travel modes and applies it to the case of Poznan (532,000 residents as of 2020). It is assumed that the approach should meet three basic criteria: (1) versatility: it should be possible to include multiple travel modes and multiple destination types, (2) comparability: accessibility of public housing projects should be compared to the accessibility of housing units sold on the market, (3) replicability: the approach should be based on a replicable framework, including the use of open data and open-source software whenever possible.
Mots clés : accessibility|equity|social housing|integrated planning|Poland
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