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.
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.
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
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
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.
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
The project focuses on net zero retrofitting in the housing market post-pandemic, aligning with the question's inquiry.
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