Horizon Housing: Affordable Renovation Policy & Business Models
Funds three €5M projects on what actually makes renovating rental housing affordable — for policy researchers and housing providers, not hardware builders.
Across Europe, the push to renovate homes for energy efficiency keeps hitting the same wall in the rental and affordable-housing sector: the households and landlords who'd benefit most from a cheaper-to-run home are often the ones least able to pay for deep renovation, and the policies meant to help don't always work as intended. This topic funds work to find out why, and to test what actually doe…
Researching how existing policies, regulations, support instruments and business models — from local to EU level — affect the rate and depth of renovation of rental properties in the affordable housing sector; validating a methodology for comparing affordability of rented homes across different local housing markets, climates and demographic groups, including people in a vulnerable situation; and designing, validating and quantifying new or improved policies, regulations, instruments or business models that improve affordability while still meeting decarbonisation targets, including their effect on the cost of a deep renovation at different building scales and under different ownership and governance models.
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