What might be the impacts of the drive to reduce housing stock emissions on housing supply and affordability? What is the evidence, including unintended consequences?
Background
Focusing on decarbonising buildings, to consolidate evidence around the potential effects of net zero on the housing stock, housing supply and the housing market.
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:
Related UKRI funded projects
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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
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on decarbonising buildings and predicts the reductions in energy use and carbon emissions arising from renovation options, which is directly related to the question.
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Cardiff Metropolitan University and Cynon Taf Community Housing (2007) Limited
To increase the capability to transition to net-zero-carbon by piloting innovative decarbonisation pathways for 69 dwellings. The outcomes of the pilot will be used to scale for retrofit of tenant homes....
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
Addresses the impacts of reducing housing stock emissions and focuses on transitioning to net-zero carbon.
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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
Why might this be relevant?
Provides an innovative AI-based solution for vulnerable residents to achieve near-zero-carbon status for their homes.