PATHWAYS TO INCLUSIVE, AFFORDABLE, AND SUSTAINABLE HOUSING
OVERVIEW
PREFIGURE supports local prototype initiatives for affordable, accessible and sustainable housing that can inspire alternative and innovative policies and practices for the green transition.
Alongside policy efforts to promote energy efficiency in housing, there is growing concern that social and spatial inequalities may be exacerbated. However, in order to ensure a just green transition, housing renovation should also address existing challenges posed by gender, ethnic, and intergenerational disparities.
PROJECT
GOALS
To identify how multi-scalar housing and energy policies trigger the green transition and address social and spatial inequalities. Also, to explore how different types of owners and tenants perceive sustainable housing and energy transitions.
BENEFITS
Housing Opportunities: Prefigure enhances affordable and sustainable housing, significantly improving the quality of life of citizens across Europe.
Energy Efficiency: By supporting the implementation of energy-efficient housing renovations, it aspires to reduce inequality and alleviates energy poverty, fostering a more equitable society.
Community engagement strives to foster learning communities among policymakers, civil society, and stakeholders, with the aim of promoting collaboration to solve housing and energy challenges.
Evidence-Based Solutions: It provides well-researched policy recommendations, with the intention of empowering decision makers and stakeholders at local, regional, national, and European levels.
Interdisciplinary Connections: Stakeholders benefit from cross-sectoral collaboration, with the hope of leading to innovative solutions for the housing and energy crisis.
NEW DATA
SETS
PREFIGURE will produce new quantitative and qualitative datasets on housing inequalities and energy vulnerability across Europe. A survey in 7 European countries will shed new light on the challenges people face in retrofitting buildings to make them more energy efficient. From this, the project will make policy recommendations for key decision makers.
The housing-energy nexus will be studied in 9 European cities: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Copenhague, Ioannina, Karlsruhe, London, Sofia, Tallinn and Thessaloniki.
PARTNERS
The interdisciplinary skills of the consortium are a major asset to PREFIGURE. Comprising nine partners, including 4 universities and 5 non-academic partners, the consortium brings expertise in mixed-methods, policy co-design and the delivery of alternative solutions for affordable, accessible, and energy-efficient housing.
