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Welcome
The 5th edition of ISHF will take place in Dublin from 4th - 6th of June 2025. It will be hosted by Housing Europe members the Irish Council for Social Housing (ICSH) with support from Co-operative Housing Ireland (CHI).
The Festival will be hosted in the Convention Centre in Dublin City, with plenty of opportunities to see what else Dublin has to offer with field trips in the afternoon and with social and cultural events to round out the evenings.
ISHF Dublin 2025 will continue the conversations started in the four previous host cities, with the theme of “Storytelling” shaping the debate over two and a half days in Dublin. Organisations from across the globe will have the opportunity to put their ideas forward and shape the agenda of the Festival.
We look forward to welcoming you to Dublin.
Keep an eye on this page for more details.
Festival with a history
The International Social Housing Festival (ISHF) is an initiative of Housing Europe, the European Federation of Public, Cooperative and Social Housing, and its members and allies, present in 31 countries and encompassing 25 million dwellings, 11% of the housing stock in the European Union.
The 1st of ISHF took place in Amsterdam in 2017 and was attended by some 1,300 people in a total of 45 events over two days.
The 2nd edition was organized in Lyon in 2019 and involved some 1,500 participants and 70 events over 4 days.
The 3rd edition planned for 2021 had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and finally took place in June 2022 in Helsinki, where about 1,000 people participated in 80 different activities over 3 days.
For the 4th edition in 2023, we were in Barcelona where a new record was set with more than 2,100 participants from all over the world.
ISHF is a unique opportunity for discussion between social and affordable housing providers, policymakers, researchers, city authorities, urbanists, architects and activists.
2,100 registrations
Passing the baton to Dublin
Ada Colau, former mayor of Barcelona
2,100 registrations
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Dublin in June 2025
Housing Europe has granted the 5th edition of the International Social Housing Festival to its members, the Irish Council for Social Housing (ICSH) and Co-operative Housing Ireland (CHI).
It is confirmed, in June 2025, the Festival will travel to the Irish capital, bringing some of the brightest minds from all across the world to discuss how the right to housing can be brought back to the people.
As usual, organisations from different corners of the planet will have the chance to put their ideas forward and shape the agenda of the Festival.
Keep an eye on this page for more details.
#ISHF2025 organisers
YOUR VOICE AT ISHF
Every edition is shaped by organisations and individuals that strive to advance housing systems and make them fair. Public, cooperative, social, community-led housing providers, decision makers at different level, tenants unions, urbanists, architects, NGOs, researchers, and activists are shaping the content of ISHF. This is exactly why each and every Festival is so different.
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Last #ISHF2023 in Barcelona
2100+
Social & affordable housing providers, policymakers, researchers, urbanists, architects, activists
200
Partnering organisations which put their ideas for events forward
82
Nationalities from
several continents
30
Side events
20 stands
6 exhibitions
8 venues in BCN
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