A study of sustainable financing for the Turkish urban infrastructure and urban regeneration projects: United Kingdom shared ownership model

Due to the fact that our country is under the threat of earthquakes and distorted urbanization, the existing building stock needs to be renewed. As in the examples of developed countries, urban transformation should be considered together with the infrastructure and planned in an integrated way with the infrastructure. In the study, the examples of urban regeneration solved together with the infrastructure from the world were mentioned and the examples of Turkey were given. On the other hand, one of the biggest obstacles in front of urban regeneration is the problem of financing. In the thesis, current financing methods and institutions from the world and from Turkey are introduced. In the thesis, the financing ecosystem of infrastructure and urban transformation is introduced due both technological and environmental pressures on financing markets, and a financing model specific to our country is presented through concepts such as sharing economy, economic resilience, digital economy and ecological economy within this ecosystem. Within this model, it is thought that the Shared Ownership model taken from The United Kingdom, specially used in social housing financing through Housing Associations, will set an example for future studies. Keywords: Urban Infrastructure, Urban Regeneration, Social Housing, Housing Associations, Shared Ownership