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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?

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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: [email protected] and David Hughes, Head of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office: [email protected].

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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

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  • RCUK Innovation Fellowship in UK Housing Stock Decarbonisation

    Several models have been developed in the UK to predict the energy and associated carbon emissions of the UK housing stock. These have been used to predict the reductions in energy use and carbon emissions arising from a...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Sheffield

    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.

  • Enabling the mortgage industry to drive net zero retrofitting through a data-driven portfolio approach

    Residential property accounts for 20% of global carbon emissions and 70% of the homes in 2050 already exist today; retrofitting is therefore critical to meet the UK's legally binding target of net zero by 2050\. Mortgag...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: PROPFLO LTD

    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.

  • 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

    Lead research organisation: Institute for Fiscal Studies

  • The London Research and Policy Partnership - London government working together for a fairer, greener and more prosperous city

    National government is committed to reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and the Mayor of London by 2030. But achieving this will mean radical action on retrofitting London's buildings and in particular homes with ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

  • Enabling a portfolio approach to net zero retrofitting of mortgaged, shared ownership and private rented properties

    According to the ONS, a significant proportion of properties (over 47%) in England are either owned with a mortgage (6.8m) or in the private rented sector (4.8m). There are also 0.2m homes from the social housing sector ...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: PROPFLO LTD

  • Building Better: the next frontier for sustainable, high quality, net zero homes

    Building Better, backed by the National Housing Federation, is an alliance of 31 housing associations and local authorities working together to increase the use of modern methods of construction (MMC) in the social housi...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: BUILDING BETTER

  • ReHousIn - Contextualized pathways to reduce housing inequalities in the green and digital transition

    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, especiall...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

    Why might this be relevant?

    Partially answers the question by focusing on housing inequalities and the green transition.

  • The SuperHomes Rating Scheme

    The new SuperHomes Rating Scheme (SRS) is a leading-edge approach, which establishes a range of performance tiers for the retrofit of existing homes, covering energy use, comfort, health and well-being and can accommodat...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: THE NATIONAL ENERGY FOUNDATION

  • Build-up for Net Zero (BUNZ)

    The **BUNZ (Build-Up Net-Zero)** concept creates a new sustainable model for creating desirable net-zero performance-guaranteed new homes, whilst retrofitting existing homes to net zero. Energiesprong UK (ESUK) was set u...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: ENERGIESPRONG UK LIMITED

  • Towards Zero Carbon Buildings: An Ai-Based Pay as You Decarbonise (Ai-PaYD) Business Model for Residential Customers

    Ai-PaYD is an innovative first of a kind (FOAK) solution and a multifaceted AI-based software application that is designed to assist vulnerable residents (elderly, disabled, single parents etc.) who are homeowners' in se...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: ENERGI CONSULTS LIMITED

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