What emerging evidence is there about the future housing market in a post-pandemic world? And how will net zero carbon emission homes affect this?
Background
The questions that will help us to grow our understanding to support the recovery from the pandemic, and to inform the medium and long term strategy for ‘living with COVID’, in areas relevant to DLUHC responsibilities.
Next steps
The lead contacts are: Lesley Smith, Senior Principal Research Officer, Analysis, Research and Co-ordination Unit, Analysis and Data Directorate: Lesley.Smith@levellingup.gov.uk and David Hughes, Head of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office: psChiefScientificAdviser@levellingup.gov.uk.
Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
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Related UKRI funded projects
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RCUK Innovation Fellowship in UK Housing Stock Decarbonisation
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Why might this be relevant?
The project specifically focuses on predicting the adoption of renovation options in response to policy measures, which is relevant to understanding the future housing market in a post-pandemic world and the impact of net zero carbon emission homes.
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Enabling the mortgage industry to drive net zero retrofitting through a data-driven portfolio approach
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Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on net zero retrofitting in the housing market and its impact on carbon emissions, directly addressing the question about the future housing market in a post-pandemic world and net zero carbon emission homes.
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Urban Dynamics in a Complex World: The spatial dynamics of housing
Our research will explore why households sometimes choose to own the home they live in and why the rental market may fail to provide an adequate and reasonably priced alternative. As household ownership choices are inher...
Funded by: ESRC