PATHWAYS TO INCLUSIVE, AFFORDABLE, AND SUSTAINABLE HOUSING
CO-FUNDED BY
THE EUROPEAN UNION
Prototypes for addressing the housing-energy-nexus. PREFIGURE explores local, market and social innovation schemes that combat housing inequalities and energy poverty in Europe.
With structural dynamics underpinning social and spatial inequalities, the project seeks to co-create new pathways to affordable and energy-efficient housing and to support policy in this key area.
UNLOCKING ALTERNATIVE PATHWAYS
- The housing/energy nexus: exploring the ways in which energy poverty and housing inequalities intersect and inform just housing and energy policies.
- A catalogue of prototypes of change: upscaling local initiatives of policy, market and social innovation.
- Transformative methods for knowledge co-creation, networking and dissemination using corner.
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News & Events
Energy costs: high concern, little room for renovation – new PREFIGURE survey of German households
Most households in Germany expect energy costs to keep rising, yet nearly two thirds say they cannot afford climate-friendly renovation. These are the first findings of a PREFIGURE household survey carried out by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
Fair, affordable and climate-resilient housing: bridging energy and social policies – after event material
By Marine Perrio, IEECP
From window restoration to heating solutions DIY: corner in Christiania
From 11 to 13 June 2026, PREFIGURE's mobile laboratory corner