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This project seeks to understand the impacts of recent crises on housing inequalities across Europe, with a focus on the implementation of the green transition launched by the European Union.

Overview

The project Reducing housing inequalities in the green and digital transition (ReHousIn) is committed to better understand the impacts of recent crises on housing inequalities across different European regions, especially with regard to the implementation of the green transition launched by the EU. The overall aim is to explore the mechanisms affecting the (re)production of housing inequalities under recent crisis conditions, and the impacts of the EU induced green transition in different national contexts and along different degrees of urbanisation.

Based on a contextualized and comparative understanding of the mechanisms (re)producing housing inequalities, ReHousIn inquiries into multi-level pathways and inclusive local housing initiatives to spark innovative EU, national and local policy solutions towards inclusionary and quality housing, mitigating the possible negative impacts of the EU induced green transition. It conducts a comparative, multi-level analysis in 9 European countries – Austria, France, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom – focusing on attractive metropolitan regions, middle-sized cities and rural areas by means of a mixed-method project design.

A quantitative data analysis on recent trends in housing inequalities and their relation to crises across different levels of urbanization will provide the framework for 27 local cases studies in which the impact of multi-level trajectories of housing system, welfare regimes and environmental policy instrumentations on the (re)production of local housing inequalities and the emergence of inclusive housing initiatives are analysed. Based on this, ReHousIn compares mechanisms of differentiation feeding into policy labs, aiming to formulate recommendations on how to tackle negative social externalities related the EU green transition at EU, national and local levels.

This project will run from March 2024 to February 2027.

People and collaborators

Dr Sonia Arbaci (Lead PI), The Bartlett School of Planning
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Dr Phoebe Stirling, The Bartlett School of Planning
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Lead organisation: Metropolitan Research Institute (Hungary)

Partners: UCL (UK); Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Norway); Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy); Sciences Po (France); Technische Universität Wien (Austria); University of Vienna (Austria); Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain); Uniwersytet Lodzki (Poland); ETH Zürich (Switzerland); ICLEI European Secretariat GmbH (Germany).

A PostDoc fellow will collaborate for the UK part.

Funders

UK Research and Innovate (UKRI) - EU Underwrite

University College London is an associated partner on the .

Outputs

The ReHousIn project will:

• Improve the knowledge on housing inequalities and the differentiated effects of multiple crises conditions on different contexts-provide guidance for policymakers suggesting context-sensitive and intersectoral policies to mitigate housing inequalities and enhance the provision of affordable, energy-efficient and inclusive housing for all, but especially for the most vulnerable groups in Europe.
• Support policymakers by assessing how three core types of green transition initiatives have impacted housing inequalities areas with different degrees of urbanization.
• Nourish the existing critical debates on green transition initiatives and their socio-environmental trade-offs and on the consequences of the digital transition on housing inequalities.
• Extends the understanding of the possible socio-spatial implications of green transition initiatives in contexts with different degrees of urbanisation.
• Advance a context-sensitive analytical and conceptual framework, improving the understanding of the role played by multi-level governance structures in shaping housing inequalities, in the context of the green transition, with a comprehensive (both within-country and cross-country) comparative approach.

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